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Excel VB: Excel Macros Section 1: Programming Macros in Excel

This document provides an overview of programming macros in Excel. It discusses how the macro recorder can be used to create macros and teaches Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code. It also introduces the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) as the environment for developing, testing, and modifying VBA macros and procedures in Excel. The VBE allows users to write code in the VBA language that Excel understands to automate tasks. After learning the content of Section 1, users will be able to record macros, develop their own macros in the VBE, and copy and utilize macros from online resources in their Excel workbooks.

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Excel VB: Excel Macros Section 1: Programming Macros in Excel

This document provides an overview of programming macros in Excel. It discusses how the macro recorder can be used to create macros and teaches Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code. It also introduces the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) as the environment for developing, testing, and modifying VBA macros and procedures in Excel. The VBE allows users to write code in the VBA language that Excel understands to automate tasks. After learning the content of Section 1, users will be able to record macros, develop their own macros in the VBE, and copy and utilize macros from online resources in their Excel workbooks.

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EXCEL VB

Excel Macros Section 1: Programming Macros in Excel


In this first section you will learn how easy it is to record macros with the Macro
Recorder and to create other macros of your own in the Visual Basic Editor.
You will discover that:
- the Macro Recorder is not only a recorder but it is the best teacher and it will be a
great assistant (writing code for you) even when you become an expert at programming
in VBA.
- the Visual Basic Editor is the most user friendly development environment that tells
you immediately if there are mistakes in your sentences so that you do not have to wait
at the end of your project to realize that something that you have written is wrong.
- in the Visual Basic Editor you will create these powerful and useful userforms
- in the Visual Basic editor you will test your macros step by step, modify them and
improve them.
After section 1, you will be able to copy all the macros available on the internet and use
them efficiently in your own workbooks

Here is a sample of what you will find in chapter 1


of the downloadable Tutorial on Excel macros

The Visual Basic Editor in Excel (VBE)


When you want somebody to do some work for you, you open your Email program and
you send him a message in a language that he understands (English, Spanish,
French...). When you want Excel to do some work for you, you open the Visual Basic
Editor and you write the instructions in a language that Excel understands VBA
(Visual Basic for Application).
You will develop, test and modify VBA procedures (macros) in the Excel Visual Basic
Editor (VBE). It is a very user-friendly development environment. VBA procedures
developed in the VBE become part of the workbook in which they are developed and
when the workbook is saved the VBA components (including macros, modules,

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