Excel VBA Course Description

Overview:

Excel VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) enables you to enhance and extend the capabilities of Microsoft® Excel® and other applications in the Microsoft® Office application suite. You can use Excel VBA to perform tasks that would be difficult or impossible to do using only worksheet functions, and you can automate a wide range of tasks so they can be performed faster, more consistently, and with less effort than performing them manually. This course will give you a good foundation for understanding, creating, and using Excel VBA in your own Excel workbooks. You will learn how to use the macro recorder effectively, as well as how to write your own Excel VBA code from scratch. You will use tools built into Excel to explore and learn Excel VBA's capabilities and to optimize and debug your code, covered in this Excel Class.

Course Objectives:

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

• Identify general components of Excel VBA and their appropriate use in solving business solutions.

• Record Excel VBA macros to automate repetitive tasks.

• Write Excel VBA code to create Excel 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 Excel VBA code, and optimize its performance.

Target Student:

This Excel VBA 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.

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