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Excel Programming with VBA Starter
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Excel Programming with VBA Starter
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Excel Programming with VBA Starter
So, what is VBA?
The basic features of VBA
What kind of things can you do with it?
How can you use this technology within your existing projects?
Recording a macro, adding modules, browsing objects, and variables
Recording a macro
Option 1 – Recording a macro from the status bar
Option 2 – Recording from the Developer tab
Executing your code
Saving a workbook containing macros
Adding a module
Browsing objects
Working with variables
The Immediate window
And that's it
Quick start – VBA programming
Working with loops
Method 1 – For-Next loops
Method 2 – For Each-Next Loops
Method 3 – Do-While and Do-Until loops
Dimensioning and instantiating objects
Subroutines and user-defined functions
Subroutines
Functions
Top features you'll want to know about
Enumeration
Classes
External libraries
People and places you should get to know
Official sites
Resources
Articles and tutorials
Community
Blogs
Twitter
About the author
About the reviewers
Index
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Excel Programming with VBA Starter
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Excel Programming with VBA Starter
Welcome to Excel VBA Starter. This book has been especially created to provide you with all the information that you need to get up to speed with programming with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). You will learn the basics of VBA, get started with building your first VBA code, create user-defined functions to work out complex calculations, and see the tricks of the trade when it comes to using VBA with Excel.
This document contains the following sections:
So what is VBA? – find out what VBA actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great.
Recording a macro, adding modules, browsing objects, and variables – learn how to record a macro, add modules, browse for objects available in your project, and finally what variables are useful for.
Quick start: VBA programming – this section will get you started on programming with VBA. Here you will learn how to perform some core tasks in VBA. Such tasks include using loops, dimensioning objects, and creating and categorizing User-defined Functions (UDFs).
Top features you need to know about – VBA gives you infinite possibilities when it comes to creating your own solutions. In this section, you will learn some key concepts such as enumeration, classes (defining properties and methods), and referencing external libraries, in particular how to manipulate files and folders.
People and places you should get to know – in this day and age, it is impossible to live without the Internet and it is here ...
