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Course Outline
Macros
- Recording and editing macros.
- Assigning macros to forms, toolbars, and keyboard shortcuts.
VBA Environment
- The Visual Basic Editor and its settings.
- Managing components.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Optimizing the development environment.
Introduction to Procedural Programming
- Procedures: Functions and Subs.
- Data types.
- If statements: then ... elseif ... else ... end if.
- Case statements.
- Loops: for ... loop, while ... until.
- For ... next loops.
- Loop control instructions (exit).
- Array processing.
String Handling
- Concatenating quoted strings.
- Conversion to other data types (implicit and explicit).
- Processing features of quoted strings.
Visual Basic Essentials
- Reading and writing data to spreadsheets (Cells, Range).
- Interacting with users via InputBox and MsgBox.
- Variable declaration.
- Variable scope and lifetime.
- Operators and their precedence.
- Module options.
- Creating and utilizing custom functions in worksheets.
- Objects, classes, methods, and properties.
- Code security best practices.
- Preventing code tampering and code reviewing.
Debugging
- Stepping through code.
- Using the Locals window.
- Using the Immediate window.
- Traps and Watches.
- Understanding the Call Stack.
Error Handling
- Types of errors and strategies to avoid them.
- Capturing and handling run-time errors.
- Error handling structures: On Error Resume Next, On Error GoTo.
Excel Object Model
- The Application Object.
- Workbook object and Workbooks collection.
- Worksheet object and Worksheets collection.
- Objects: ThisWorkbook, ActiveWorkbook, ActiveCell.
- Selection Object.
- Range Collection.
- Cells Object.
- Displaying data on the status bar.
- Optimization using ScreenUpdating.
- Time measurement using the Timer method.
Event Handling in VBA
- Understanding events.
- Responding to events and creating event handlers.
- Triggering Event Handlers.
- Managing frequently occurring events.
VBA Forms
- Creating custom forms.
- Invoking forms from code.
- Utilizing forms within worksheets.
Requirements
- Proficiency in working with spreadsheets and basic knowledge (e.g., references, ranges, sheets).
- Previous VBA background knowledge is not required to create macros or write VBA code.
Target Audience
- Data Analysts.
21 Hours
Testimonials (5)
scope of material
Marcin - Instytut Energetyki- Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy
Course - Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) w Excel - wstęp do programowania
A lot of exercise. Trainer doesn't need to have support for his course. He has really great knowledge for his subject.
Quentin Demeyere
Course - Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel - Introduction to programming
It was really nice of the trainer that he took a lot of time to answer our questions and helped us improve or gave us hints on how to improve some macros we were already using without fully understanding the code.
David Trieu - CD Projekt SA
Course - Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel - Introduction to programming
I genuinely enjoyed the short exercises.
Mateusz Podsiadlo
Course - Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel - Introduction to programming
Training agenda was well thought out.
