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Course Outline
Part I. Maximizing Excel's Potential
Overview of Tools on the Data Tab
- Accessing external data: Do you really need to visit the bank’s website daily to check the current CHF exchange rate?
- Setting up connections to external data (Access, Web, Text, XML, etc.)
- Multi-level sorting: Rules and proper sorting options
- Efficient advanced filtering: Creating criteria ranges to access filter options
- Quick text-to-columns conversion
- Removing duplicate data
- Enforcing correct data entry: How to ensure data adheres to specific formats
- Data Analysis: Preparing professional presentations of possible scenarios
- Data Analysis: Estimating formula outcomes
- Grouping and outlining: How to roll up rows and columns and display varying levels of detail
PivotTables and PivotCharts
- Calculated fields: How to add fields to a PivotTable that are not present in the source sheet
- Calculations within PivotTables
- Data grouping and creating professional-looking statements
Part II. Automation using VBA
Macros
- Recording and editing macros: Understanding when recording is appropriate
- Where to store macros: The best practices for writing and saving them
Introduction to Procedural Programming - The Foundation
- Sub and Function: How to invoke them and understand their purpose
- Data Types: Understanding variables and the importance of declaring them
- Conditional statements: If ... Then ... ElseIf ... Else ... End If
- Select Case statement and handling associated logic
- For ... Next loops and For ... Each loops
- While ... WEnd and Until loops
- Loop exit instructions
Visual Basic in Action
- Downloading and uploading data to spreadsheets (Cells, Range)
- Interacting with the user via InputBox and MsgBox
- Scope and lifetime of variables
- Operators and their precedence
- Useful module options
- Securing code: Protecting code from tampering and inspection
- Key Excel objects: Application, Workbook, Workbooks, Worksheet, Worksheets
- Other key objects: ThisWorkbook, ActiveWorkbook, ActiveCell, Selection, Range, Cells
Debugging
- Immediate Window
- Locals Window
- Step-through processing: What to do when something stops working
- Watch windows
- Call Stack
Error Handling
- Types of errors and strategies to avoid them
- Capturing and handling run-time errors: Why properly written code may still fail
- Constructs: On Error Resume Next, On Error GoTo label, On Error GoTo 0
Requirements
Above-average knowledge of MS Excel.
28 Hours
Testimonials (5)
well-prepared training, interesting topics
Maciek Boiski - Instytut Energetyki - Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy
Course - Microsoft Office Excel - poziom podstawowy
scope of material
Marcin - Instytut Energetyki- Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy
Course - Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) w Excel - wstęp do programowania
Well structured. Good teaching techniques. Course well documented!
Sorin
Course - VBA For Access & Excel
What I liked most about the training was the trainer’s knowledge of Excel. I appreciated learning useful things like shortcuts and formulas that I can use every day.
Martin
Course - Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for Analysts
Very practical
