Course overview

Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)

Our Excel – Working with Macros course aims to show how macros can be used to automate commonly used commands and processes.

This course is designed for existing experienced users of Excel. You should be confident creating and manipulating Excel spreadsheets and creating formulas before attending this course.

Objectives 

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Record and run macros
• Navigate within the Visual Basic Environment
• Edit pre-recorded macros
• Create your own functions

Content

Recording macros  

• Accessing the Developer Tab
• Naming conventions and storage locations
• Recording macros
• Absolute and relative cell addressing

Running macros

• Assigning macros to the Quick Access Toolbar
• Assigning macros to objects
• Creating new tabs

Workbook macros 

• Recording macros in a specific workbook
• Saving the workbook as an Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook
• Creating quick access items specific to workbooks

Importing and manipulating data 

• Importing Delimited Text Files
• Importing Fixed Width Text Files

The Visual Basic environment 

• Project explorer
• Code window
• Properties window
• Renaming modules
• Deleting modules

Working with code 

• Code structure
• Adding comments
• Navigating within your code
• Editing macro code
• Getting help with syntax

Debugging 

• Errors
• Using debug

Function procedures

• Creating function macros

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