| Intermediate | CPD: 7 hours | 2 half-days | Virtual |
Description
The Understanding and Using VBA course is an intensive course run virtually over two half-days that gives participants practical expertise in using VBA to enhance the capabilities of Excel.
What really sets our program apart is the way in which we explain, step-by-step, exactly how to harness the power of VBA to create powerful real-world solutions. Our approach demystifies the complexities of using VBA, and gives participants practical skills that they can use to secure immediate benefits.
Participants will have access to a range of fully working VBA examples, and will be able to download these for their own use after the seminar is over.
Learning Outcomes
By attending this course, you will:
- Explore the key features of VBA for Excel within a logical framework
- Develop your skills in working with Excel VBA
- Enhance your abilities to analyse and debug existing VBA code
- Examine techniques used for interfacing VBA with Excel and VBA with databases
Who Should Attend
Anyone who wants to learn how to expand Excel’s capabilities by using VBA.
Prerequisites
A good working knowledge of Excel.
Book Now!Seminar Content
Introduction to VBA
- Key uses for VBA
- Projects, Modules, and Procedures
- Functions vs. Subroutines
- Types of variable: integer, double, string, variant, and others
- Passing parameters to functions and subroutines
- Passing by value and passing by reference
- Objects, properties, methods, and events
Programming Structure
- Declaring variables
- Scope and lifetime of variables
- Use of STATIC declaration
- Declaring arrays
- Conditional statements
- Looping structures
- Defining constants
- computer Developing a user-defined function
The VBA Environment
- Project Explorer
- Properties Window
- Code Window
- Running and Debugging code
- Setting breakpoints
- Stepping through the code
- Stepping into / over / out / run to cursor / set next statement
- Immediate Window
- Watch window
- Adding a Watch
- Locals Window
- Call Stack
- Error handling
- Error handling within error handling procedures
- Returning 3/A and #VALUE! Errors from user-defined functions
- computer Debugging errors in a UDF
Interfacing VBA with Excel
- Recording and running macros
- Excel objects, properties, and methods
- Working with the methods of specific Excel objects
- Assigning macros to menus, toolbars and buttons
- Workbook and Worksheet events
- Retrieving data from a worksheet
- Writing data to a worksheet
- computer Creating a subroutine / worksheet connection
Interfacing VBA with Databases
- ADO vs. DAO
- Creating the connection string
- Connecting to the database
- Retrieving recordsets and transferring to Excel
- Transferring Excel data to the database
- computer Data retrieval subroutine example
When and Where
19 Feb 2025 - 20 Feb 2025
a.m. sessions – 08:00 to 12:00 (for Asia / EMEA participants)
p.m. sessions – 13:00 to 17:00 (for EMEA / Americas participants)
All times are GMT (London time)
Virtual
Data Science
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