Excel in Microsoft Excel 4: VBA macros for Excel – an intro

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Overview

Welcome to Excel VBA – An Introduction. This course delves into the Visual Basic which allows you to automate Microsoft Excel (and other MS Office products).

Microsoft Excel is an extremely powerful tool – and yet most people only scratch the surface of what it can do. In addition to PivotTables, VLookup formulas and the like, you can also automate it. You can add buttons and forms to add interactive features – yet most people don’t even know it’s there. Maybe you have someone in your organization who is an absolute wizard, getting the computer to do things and walking away while it does it. Do you want to be able to do that? Welcome to wizard school – or in other words, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

In this course, I’ll assume that you have some fair knowledge of Excel – able to do basic formulas and colour cells and the like – but you don’t need any prior knowledge of VBA or any programming language for that matter. Of course, the more you already have, the better. I’ll take things nice and slowly. Each video will center around one new aspect, or we’ll consolidate what you already know with coding exercises.

Once you have finished the course, then you will be well on your way to developing your own macros to solve your own problems. And you’ll be able to take your new-found knowledge for use in Word and PowerPoint as well.

Completing this course will help you:

Add the Developer tab and record macros.
Adapt macros using the Excel Object Model, so that you can use them in your spreadsheets.
Know about variables, and how to use loops and If statements.
Interact with Excel – find out how to access the Selection object, and output results using a MessageBox (MsgBox).

Who is the course for?

This Excel VBA course is for you if you want to learn how to automate Excel and provide a better user interaction.

No prior programming language is required – although, it would always help!

This course is not for you if you are confident using VBA, and are looking for more advanced techniques.

Learning Path

Recording your first macro

The Developer Tab
My First Macro
Use Relative References
The editing environment
Hello World!
Saving and opening our spreadsheet
Security
Self certification

Variables

Introducing variables
Scope
Breakpoints, the Immediate Window and Watches
String operators
Declaring types of variables
Avoiding typos

The Excel Object Model

Interacting with the Excel spreadsheet
Introducing Objects
Introducing the Object Model
Default Objects, and Default Properties

Loops and If statements

For…Next Loops
InputBox
IsNumeric and If…Then
If…Else…End If
Val()
Do While…Loop
Other types of loops
Selection
Set
For Each…Next Loop

What people are saying

“The instructor is sharing information that I am foreign to, in an easily understandable pace.”
John
“Easy to Follow The instructor seems to have good grasp of the subject and also knows the problems students might encounter. Great teaching as well. Pace is normal allows replication easy. Very Good Class !!!!”
Cheick
“Great course! I can tell he is a subject expert. Examples are clear, practical and starting with the simplest.”
Jose
“This is a very good starting point in VBA. But doing this course one realize how extensive and huge VBA is. As always the teacher is great and one feels his in depth knowledge”
Daniel
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