A couple of years ago, I downloaded the Excel spreadsheet offered by Scubabatdan to help with my DIY experiments. Dan obviously put a lot of work into it, and I studied it very closely. I love working with Excel, so I started playing around with Dan's spreadsheets and customizing them to fit my own needs. My variations of Dan's spreadsheets kind of took on a life of their own, and I kept playing around with the variations until it had a much different look and worked in much different ways.
At one point during the development, I emailed Dan to show him what I had been doing, but I never got a reply, so I don't know if he even saw it. I kind of hope he didn't examine it, because shortly after sending him my Excel file, I discovered some major flaws in my calculations! Of course, I quickly fixed those flaws, and I continued to play around with my version, developing my variations, until it became a whole different animal in many ways.
My workbook is also coupled with a Word file called "Recipes" that is a compilation of recipe cards, graphic images captured from the Excel Recipe card that Dan first invented and I later customized. I found a VB macro that allows for copying the Recipe Card image in Excel and pasting it to the end of the Word file with the click of a button on the Excel sheet. The button is right next to the Recipe Card in Excel, so if a recipe is displayed on the sheet and you want to add it to the Word Recipe Book, just click the button and it opens that Word file and pastes the recipe at the end, so you can keep adding recipes. The Word file has two recipe cards per page, so you can print them out and they're a nice big size you can keep handy when making a batch.
There are several other macros spread throughout the different tabs of the Excel workbook. The most interesting and useful of these is the All-in-One tab, which has a lot of bells and whistles, and even a Toy Box. The Toy Box came about recently when forum member and blogger "Hoosier" suggested a couple of items on his wish list for an e-liquid calculator, and I figured out ways to accomplish them. They are fun and geeky, maybe not entirely useful to the average DIY mixer, but, hey, they're fun and geeky!
So, with a tip of the hat to Scubabatdan for his original versions, I now offer my version, obviously based on his work, but with a much different feel and utility. The download link is on the web page in my signature, so visit the website, take a look, and if you want to download it and try it out or just check it out, please feel free. I hope it is useful or fun for some of the DIY e-liquid folks.
At one point during the development, I emailed Dan to show him what I had been doing, but I never got a reply, so I don't know if he even saw it. I kind of hope he didn't examine it, because shortly after sending him my Excel file, I discovered some major flaws in my calculations! Of course, I quickly fixed those flaws, and I continued to play around with my version, developing my variations, until it became a whole different animal in many ways.
My workbook is also coupled with a Word file called "Recipes" that is a compilation of recipe cards, graphic images captured from the Excel Recipe card that Dan first invented and I later customized. I found a VB macro that allows for copying the Recipe Card image in Excel and pasting it to the end of the Word file with the click of a button on the Excel sheet. The button is right next to the Recipe Card in Excel, so if a recipe is displayed on the sheet and you want to add it to the Word Recipe Book, just click the button and it opens that Word file and pastes the recipe at the end, so you can keep adding recipes. The Word file has two recipe cards per page, so you can print them out and they're a nice big size you can keep handy when making a batch.
There are several other macros spread throughout the different tabs of the Excel workbook. The most interesting and useful of these is the All-in-One tab, which has a lot of bells and whistles, and even a Toy Box. The Toy Box came about recently when forum member and blogger "Hoosier" suggested a couple of items on his wish list for an e-liquid calculator, and I figured out ways to accomplish them. They are fun and geeky, maybe not entirely useful to the average DIY mixer, but, hey, they're fun and geeky!
So, with a tip of the hat to Scubabatdan for his original versions, I now offer my version, obviously based on his work, but with a much different feel and utility. The download link is on the web page in my signature, so visit the website, take a look, and if you want to download it and try it out or just check it out, please feel free. I hope it is useful or fun for some of the DIY e-liquid folks.
