Pre-release ASAP Utilities version 4.2.5 RC3

I have just put a pre-release of the new version of ASAP Utilities online.
This new version contains a few improved utilities and a few bug fixes.

Pre-release ASAP Utilities version 4.2.3 RC1

Last week version 4.2.2. was released. Unfortunately this version contains a few bugs. I have solved these and a new version will be released soon.
The most annoying bug is in the utility "Range » Find / Replace in all sheets...". When you pressed the "Find all" button you immediately got Error 401: Application-defined or [...]

New ASAP Utilities version 4.2.2 released!

ASAP Utilities version 4.2.2 (January 22, 2008) has just been released!
I would like to thank everybody for their feedback!
Among other minor updates, these utilities have been improved:
- Export » Export selected chart or range as image (file)...
- Export » Export worksheets as separate files...
- Import » Insert (delimited) text file...
- Fill » List filenames in [...]

Pre-release ASAP Utilities version 4.2.2 RC5

I have just released the fifth pre-release of the new version of ASAP Utilities 4.2.2 which contains several new features and bug fixes.
This new version is scheduled to be finished by the end of next week (January 18). Minor updates and bug fixes will be done. Bigger updates will be reserved for the release after [...]

Pre-release ASAP Utilities version 4.2.2 RC1

I have just released a pre-release of the new version of ASAP Utilities which contains several extended utilities (mainly import/export) and a few bug fixes.
I would like to thank everybody for their feedback!

Review: ASAP Utilities - You Sexy Thing

Did you know that ASAP Utilities is sexy? I didn't too but I found out it is yesterday when I read the following review on the UK website Dooyoo! by raehippychick.
I would like to share her enthusiasm with you.
Review by 'raehippychick'

Advantages: Brilliant for any Excel user - simple, easy to use, saves time and tempers
Disadvantages: [...]

Video: How to fix trailing minus signs in Excel with ASAP Utilities

The following video will show you how to how to fix trailing minus signs in Excel by using ASAP Utilities. This can be useful if you have imported data from a system that reports negative numbers with a trailing minus.
If you've ever worked with imported numbers you might have faced the problem that negative numbers [...]

Video: How to delete all empty rows in Excel with ASAP Utilities

The following video will show you how to remove all empty rows in Excel by using ASAP Utilities. This can be useful if you have a large amount of data imported or copied together that you now want to clean up.
An approach to remove all empty rows can be to sort the worksheet. However if [...]

Protect sheets: The EnableSelection property is not saved + Excel update fix

Yesterday I got the following question: "When using the “protect multiple sheets at once” and checking only the “select unlocked cells” checkbox I find that once I save and reopen the sheets now behave as if both the “select unlocked cells” as well as the “select locked cells” seems to be in effect as I [...]

Video: How to delete the first 3 characters in a column in Excel with ASAP Utilities

The following video will show you how to strip the first 3 characters from a column in Excel by using ASAP Utilities.
The example in the video shows a list of article numbers. Now in this case we want to remove the first 3 characters.

This can be done with an Excel formula such as =RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-3) in a [...]