Understanding and Using VBA 

Description

The Understanding and Using VBA course is an intensive one-day course 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.

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 5/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
   7 Feb 2025
   09:00-17:00
   London
   Data Science

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