Course Material Works in Microsoft Excel
Course Material Works in Microsoft Excel
During this course you will build a foundation of working with Excel Macros and VBA. This foundation will be built as you engage and participate in project based Excel Macro/VBA exercises, detailed throughout the lectures within this course. Each of the projects will build upon one another, introducing a new concept each time, starting with the basic building blocks of automating any task within Excel and ending with a fully customized Excel VBA project that will automate a series of Excel tasks.
As you engage and participate in this course, you will be introduced to the wonders of creating simple Macros through the Macro Recorder and then quickly take you into the world of Excel VBA where you will experience building a more dynamic, robust experience for yourself and your peers.
Each project contains exercise files that you can download and use to complete the assigned Excel Macro/VBA projects. The course also contains detailed instructions through the video lectures as well as a series of PDF documents that you can reference as you complete the projects.
Below are a few samples of the projects you will complete by enrolling and participating in this course.
Each of these projects will direct you through key Excel VBA programming concepts and direct you to identify and use best practices in creating Excel Macros.
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During this lecture you will be introduced the course material and resources you can use to fully engage and participate in the course.
During this lecture you will be introduced to the basics of why we use Macros in Excel and how you can create Macros in Excel.
During this lecture you will be introduced to the first project you will be creating during this course.
During this lecture you will gain practical experience in using Excel's Macro Recorder tool to record your keystrokes to automate simple Excel tasks,
During this lecture you will create a Button on Excel's Quick Access Toolbar that can be used to run the Macro.
This lecture will prepare you for the next section, Project #2 by quickly introducing you to the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) window. Through the VBE window you will be able to make edits to your Macros.
This lecture will present you with practical everyday uses of Excel Macros.
Are you a Macro Recording Pro? Test your knowledge on recording macros in Excel and find out.
Practice creating Project #1. Make sure you download the exercise file provide and use the course book, PDF, provide for step by step instructions.
Welcome to VBA
During this lecture you will be introduced to the VBA development environment within Excel, the Visual Basic Editor
During this lecture you will be introduced to an Excel VBA Module
During this lecture you will take advantage of the VBE window to create a custom Procedure
During this lecture you will be introduced to working with Excel VBA Variables
During this lecture you will be introduced to one method of creating logic based code through the use of an IF Statement
During this lecture you will learn how to work with Loops within an Excel VBA procedure
This lecture will build upon the concepts learned in the previous project by introducing you to the world of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). You will take the Macro created in project #1 and add your own custom VBA code to make a more dynamic and re-usable Macro by presenting the user of the Macro with options.
Before we begin editing the code generated by the Macro Recorder, this lecture will walk you through what the recorder has done for you.
This lecture will introduce a few powerful concepts of programming in VBA.
During this lecture you will learn how to build logic in your Excel Macros using an IF statement
This lecture will introduce you to a few more key programming concepts that you will rely on throughout your Excel VBA projects.
This lecture will present you with other practical uses of using these techniques in your Macros.
During this lecture you will be introduced to a completed version of Project #3.
During this lecture you will be introduce to best practice before using the Macro Recorder tool
During this lecture you will take advantage of using the Macro recorder to add headers to the data
During this lecture you will use the Macro Recorder to format the headers added by the previous macro
During this lecture you will take the previous macros, created using the Macro Recorder, and add a little bit of Visual Basic to get them all to work together
Test your knowledge of the concepts discussed in Project #3
Test your knowledge of the concepts discussed in Project #3
This lecture will introduce you to Project #4 and what you will be creating.
During this lecture you will learn how, through VBA, you programmatically SUM a column of data
During this lecture you will be introduced to using a LOOP to perform a series of actions across multiple worksheets
Test your knowledge of the concepts discussed in Project #4
During this lecture you will be introduced to the Project you will be creating and matering
During this lecture you will learn how to take all the Macro/VBA Concepts you are learning and combine them all to create a Macro that will create a final report based on several worksheets of data
During this lecture you will be introduced to the project that you will be creating and mastering
During this lecture you will be introduced to creating Excel VBA forms within the VBA window
During this lecture you will be introduced to adding various controls to your Excel VBA form
During this lecture you will learn how to add VBA code to the form and the form controls
During this lecture you will learn how to run or display the form you have created.
During this lecture you will be introduced to a technique of importing a text file into an Excel Workbook. Text files attached to this lecture can be used to practice this technique
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