Explore ways to save time by automating tasks with macros in Microsoft Excel.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Automating your work with Excel macros
- Identifying applicable situations for using macros
- How to play back, run, or execute a macro
- Recording and testing a macro
- Overview of VBA: Altering macro code
- Understanding security
- Running a macro from the Developer tab or the View tab
- Record a macro and play it back from the Quick Access Toolbar
- Run a macro from a keystroke shortcut
- Run a macro from a button or Clip Art image
- The VBA window and VBA components
- Creating the Personal Macro Workbook
- Closing and updating the Personal Macro Workbook
- Recording a simple macro
- Expanding a macro with the If statement
- Understanding when to use absolute or relative references
- Using For and For...Next statements
- Using Do While and Do Until statements
- Creating interactive macros
- Planning a macro
- Recording partial code
- Using loop structures in context
- Testing a macro in step mode
- Pulling the data together
- Joining two macros
- Streamlining macros
- Next steps
Taught by
Dennis Taylor