Excel Programming with VBA Starter

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Excel Programming with VBA Starter

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Excel Programming with VBA Starter

So, what is VBA?

The basic features of VBA

What kind of things can you do with it?

How can you use this technology within your existing projects?

Recording a macro, adding modules, browsing objects, and variables

Recording a macro

Option 1 – Recording a macro from the status bar

Option 2 – Recording from the Developer tab

Executing your code

Saving a workbook containing macros

Adding a module

Browsing objects

Working with variables

The Immediate window

And that's it

Quick start – VBA programming

Working with loops

Method 1 – For-Next loops

Method 2 – For Each-Next Loops

Method 3 – Do-While and Do-Until loops

Dimensioning and instantiating objects

Subroutines and user-defined functions

Subroutines

Functions

Top features you'll want to know about

Enumeration

Classes

External libraries

People and places you should get to know

Official sites

Resources

Articles and tutorials

Community

Blogs

Twitter

About the author

About the reviewers

Index

Excel Programming with VBA Starter

Excel Programming with VBA Starter

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Excel Programming with VBA Starter

Welcome to Excel VBA Starter. This book has been especially created to provide you with all the information that you need to get up to speed with programming with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). You will learn the basics of VBA, get started with building your first VBA code, create user-defined functions to work out complex calculations, and see the tricks