Excel VBA
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Learn VBA Programming Step by Step
David A. Williams
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Table Of Contents
Introduction
Most people use Microsoft Excel at work, and they often perform repetitive tasks. Excel VBA is an extremely helpful tool since it will help you automate mundane tasks like copying data. For this, you will need to create a function that will reduce manual work thereby increasing productivity. When you learn how to use VBA, you can learn how to manipulate and customize the data in an Excel sheet. This book covers some basic information about VBA including the different data types and variables that you can use to automate processes and functions.
This book will take you through some basic concepts of VBA and will help you master programming in Excel VBA. You will also learn how to source data in Excel from one worksheet or workbook to another without having to open the files. You can use these statements to make it easier for you to perform iterative tasks. If you want to understand how you can use VBA to improve the processes that you work on, you have come to the right place. This book will also help you learn more about how you can manipulate strings and handle any errors.
Many examples have been given across the book that will help you learn the concepts better. You should practice these examples before you write any new code. You can also use the examples in the book as a base to write larger programs.
I hope you gathered all the information you were looking for.
Chapter One: What Can You Do With VBA?
VBA or Visual Basic for Applications is a combination of Microsoft Office Applications and Visual Basic which is an event-driven programming language developed by Microsoft. VBA allows you to automate numerous activities in any Microsoft application using a Macro. This helps a user save the time he or she spends to perform repetitive activities.
People use Excel VBA for multiple reasons including the following:
Creating lists
Creating forms and invoices
Analyzing data
Developing diagrams and charts using data
Forecasting and Budgeting
There are many other tasks one can perform using Excel, but I am sure you understand what I am saying. In simple words, one can use Excel to perform different tasks since you can automate any function in Excel using VBA. For example, you may want to develop or create a program that you can use to extract or import some numbers or data, and then format that data to help you print a report. When you develop the code, you can assign the code or macro to a button or a command. This will help you complete the task in a few minutes instead of an hour.
Common Uses of VBA
There are many reasons why most companies and organizations use VBA at work. It is important to remember that it will take you some time to write the code to automate any process. Therefore, you will need to take some time out of your busy schedule and see what you can do with VBA. This section covers some of the common processes that most people use VBA for.
Automating Documents
Most people hate having to prepare a document, and it is worse when the documents that are prepared have the same content or information that must be sent to many people. In such instances, one can use the Mail Merge add-in in Excel. This add-in is used to automate a document or letter. Remember that you cannot use this option if you need to write individual emails or documents. If you need to write individual documents, you can use VBA to help you create a form that will include the necessary information. You can also include some checkboxes that a user can choose from to create or write a document.
Word processing is only one of the many tasks that you can automate using VBA. You can also write different macros or programs to help you automate some functions in a spreadsheet. For instance, you can extract data or information from the Internet onto a spreadsheet just by clicking a button. This will help you reduce the time you spend on copying the information from the Internet and pasting it in the spreadsheet in the required format.
Customizing Application Interfaces
Some features in an application do not necessarily have to make your work easier for you, and these features can be turned off. You cannot turn these features off if you need to use them occasionally for work. Therefore, instead of disabling this feature, you can write a code in VBA that will allow you to access only those features that you use for your work. For instance, you can write a program in VBA if there are some additional functions, like conditional formatting, that you will need to include in your worksheet.
You can always change the interface of an application so that it can work better for you. You can customize menu systems and toolbars, and can also change how some elements function in the interface if you want to improve the look of the application. You can also use multiple interfaces if you want to switch between different interfaces.
One of the most common uses of VBA is to improve computation speed. You can perform numerous calculations in a few seconds. You can also create equations, graphs, and functions using the data in a worksheet or workbook. There will be a need to make changes or modifications to the data in the worksheet or workbook, and we will cover these concepts a little later in the book. If there are some complicated equations in your workbook or worksheet, you can use VBA to build a code that will simplify that process. There are some iterative functions that you can use to perform these calculations.
There are cases when the numbers that you obtain through some calculations will not make too much sense. You will only be able to use the number once someone has decided what to do with it. If these decisions are repetitive, you can use VBA to write a program that will decide what to do with the number while you play Hearts on your laptop.
