Microsoft Excel: VBA 101 - Automation Beyond the Macro Recorder

If you repeat the same steps in your spreadsheets, it's time to automate them. VBA is the programming language built into Excel and the other Microsoft Office apps, and it automates tasks you'd otherwise do by hand with keys and the mouse.

Excel's macro recorder can only go so far, and VBA picks up where it stops. At more advanced levels it lets you build your own worksheet functions, create automated workflows and control other applications. This 90-minute Excel VBA training gets you started.

You'll get familiar with the VBA Editor and its jargon, edit an existing macro, write a simple macro from scratch, add inline documentation and run code when a file opens or closes.

• Navigate the VBA Editor
• Explain procedures, modules, methods and properties
• Edit an existing recorded macro
• Write a simple macro from scratch in VBA
• Document code with inline comments
• Use VBA to run actions when a file is opened or closed

• Getting familiar with the VBA Editor
• VBA jargon: procedures, modules, methods and properties
• Editing an existing macro
• Writing a simple macro from scratch
• Creating inline documentation
• Controlling what happens when a file is opened or closed

VBA is a core skill for Excel power users and can save you, your colleagues and your customers hours by automating Excel-based tasks and processes.

The webinar is aimed at advanced Excel users with little or no programming experience who want to go beyond the macro recorder. It is delivered in the latest Excel for Windows, though much of it applies to earlier versions.

This webinar gets you started with VBA. It's aimed at advanced users of Excel, with little or no programming experience, who wish to take their level of automation knowledge beyond the macro recorder. The training will be delivered using the latest version of Excel for Windows although much of the functionality is available in earlier versions of the application.

Mike has worked in the IT training business since 1989 where his expertise and experience covers designing, delivering training courses, writing training materials and recording and editing video-based tutorials. Although he is a subject matter expert in a range of Microsoft technologies and has worked extensively with Mac OSX and Mac-related software since 2006; however, his passion is for all-things-Excel and in 2012 he founded the website theexceltrainer.co.uk

Mike is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors. In addition to training, he designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.