Quite a long time ago now I wrote a post on my map of UK postcode towns in Microsoft Excel based on various posts I had seen on clearandsimply.com. It turns out I do actually use this map quite a lot as it is very quick to use and doesn’t require any extra specialist software. So I thought I would revisit this. Read More
Tag: macro
Changing a colour scheme and extracting data from the internet
Sometimes I have a spreadsheet containing lots of spreadsheets of similar formats all using the same colour scheme. And if after a while I decide I don’t like the colours any more then it can be quite annoying to change all of the colours. So I decided to write this short little macro to change the colours.
Looping over a string in SAS
In SAS it is easy to loop a macro between two numbers
%DO I=1 %TO 10; ... %END;
But if you have a list of non-sequential numbers or text you want to run your macro over, e.g. a list of towns, it can be a bit trickier. This SUGI paper gives a macro which lets you do just that. A few years ago I looked at that macro and didn't really understand how it worked and not wanting to use code I didn't understand I wrote my own version.