Excel VBA

Audience:

This course is primarily designed for students who want to gain the skills necessary to use VBA to automate tasks in Excel such as collecting data from external sources, cleaning, and manipulating data. The target student may also want to learn how to create custom worksheet functions to streamline worksheet formulas and make complex worksheets easier to support, maintain, and understand.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in this course, you should be an experienced Excel user who is comfortable creating and working with Excel workbooks, including tasks such as entering worksheet formulas, using absolute and relative addressing, formatting cells, and creating pivot tables and charts. This level of skill could be acquired by taking the Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365 (Desktop or Online) courses, Parts 1, 2, and 3.

Course Objectives:

In this course, you will develop and deploy VBA modules to solve business problems. You will:

• Identify general components of VBA and their appropriate use in solving business solutions.
• Record VBA macros to automate repetitive tasks.
• Write VBA code to create VBA subroutines and functions.
• Use various programming elements to solve problems through code, including variables, objects, conditional statements, and loops.
• Eliminate, avoid, or handle errors in VBA code, and optimize its performance.

Course Content:

Lesson 1: Using VBA to Solve Business Problems

Topic A: Use Macros to Automate Tasks in Excel

Topic B: Identify Components of Macro-Enabled Workbooks

Topic C: Configure the Excel VBA Environment

 

Lesson 2: Recording a Macro

Topic A: Use the Macro Recorder to Create a VBA Macro

Topic B: Record a Macro with Relative Addressing

Topic C: Delete Macros and Modules

Topic D: Identify Strategies for Using the Macro Recorder

 

Lesson 3: Writing VBA Code Directly

Topic A: Write VBA Code

Topic B: Discover Objects You Can Use

Topic C: Create a Custom Function

 

Lesson 4: Solving Problems Through Code

Topic A: Make Decisions in Code

Topic B: Work with Variables

Topic C: Perform Repetitive Tasks

 

Lesson 5: Improving Your VBA Code

Topic A: Debug VBA Errors

Topic B: Deal with Errors

Topic C: Improve Macro Performance

 

Appendix A: Controlling How and When Macros Run