Excel 2003 VBA Introduction

2 days

Overview

In the previous Excel courses, you used Excel to simplify business tasks, including the creation of spreadsheets, graphs, charts, and formulas that were difficult to create and nearly impossible to maintain using pencil and paper. You now want to simplify your work in the Excel environment by automating many of the repetitive tasks that are part of spreadsheet development. In Excel 2003 Introduction to VBA you apply the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language to simplify many of the tasks you learned in Excel 2003 Level 1 and Excel 2003 Level 2.

Prerequisites

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the Excel 2003 Level 2 Systematix course or have equivalent knowledge.

Benefits

You will use VBA to create macros for automating repetitive tasks in Excel 2003.

Target student

Students looking to gain the skills necessary to apply VBA to develop macros, format worksheets, create user-interactive macros, work with multiple worksheets, and perform calculations. In addition, students who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print worksheets that include charts and sorted and filtered data.

Developing Macros

Create a Macro with the Macro Recorder
Edit a Macro
Debug a Macro
Customize Toolbars, Menus, and Hotkeys

Formatting Worksheets

Sort Data
Insert Rows and Columns
Insert Text
Format Text
Duplicate Data
Generate a Report

Creating an Interactive Worksheet

Determine Dialog Box Type
Capture User Input

Working with Multiple Worksheets

Insert, Copy, and Delete Worksheets
Rename Worksheets
Modify the Order of Worksheets
Print Worksheets

Performing Calculations

Create User-defined Functions
Automate SUM Functions