VBA Automation for Excel 2019 Cookbook: Solutions to automate routine tasks and increase productivity with Excel and other MS Office applications

A comprehensive guide to gaining a 360-degree overview of the VBA programming language and learning how to build your own programs for automating routine tasks

Key Features

• Extend the capabilities of Excel and other Office applications with the help of Microsoft VBA
• Take your Excel programming skills to the next level by creating custom applications with dialogue boxes and the range object
• Automate repetitive and monotonous office work with VBA Excel programming

Book Description

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming language developed by Microsoft to automate tasks in MS Office applications. This book will help you to focus on the essential aspects of your role by automating mundane tasks in Excel and other Office applications. With comprehensive coverage of VBA delivered in the form of practice problems and bite-sized recipes, this book will help you to hit the ground running.

Unlike most books that assume prior programming experience, this book starts with the fundamentals and gradually progresses to solving bigger problems.

You'll start by becoming familiar with VBA so that you can start recording macros right away. With this foundation in place, you'll advance to using the full capabilities of the language as you apply loops, functions, and custom dialog boxes to design your own automation programs. You'll also get to grips with embedded macros and other advanced tools to enhance productivity and explore topics relating to app performance and security. Throughout this VBA book, you'll cover multiple practice projects in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint while exploring tips and best practices to hone your skills.

By the end of this book, you'll have developed the skills you need to use VBA to create your own programs that control MS Office applications.

What you will learn

• Understand the VBA programming language's role in the context of the MS Office suite
• Discover various aspects of VBA programming such as its terminology, syntax, procedures, functions, and forms
• Investigate the elements, features, and characteristics of the VBA Editor to write and edit custom scripts
• Automate Excel sheets with the help of ranges
• Explore error handling and debugging techniques to catch bugs in your programs
• Create and use custom dialog boxes to collect data from users
• Customize and extend Office apps such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced Excel users, business analysts, finance professionals, and business users looking to boost their productivity by learning VBA programming to automate repetitive, tedious, or complex tasks. No prior programming experience is required to get started with this book.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with VBA
2. Working with the VBA Editor
3. The VBA Object Model
4. Working with Procedures
5. Next Level Recording
6. VBA Language Elements
7. Working with Ranges
8. Using Functions
9. Implementing Program Flow
10. Implementing Automation
11. Handling Errors
12. Debugging
13. Creating and Modifying Dialog Boxes
14. Creating UserForms
15. UserForm Controls
16. Creating Custom Functions
17. Creating Word Documents with Excel VBA
18. Working with PowerPoint in Excel VBA

Mike Van Niekerk has consulted as an IT lecturer since 1995, mainly presenting project management and Microsoft Office end user application courses. With 39 years of applied experience in many industries, including language courses and the writing of manuals, he has acquired an exceptional ability to transfer knowledge. Being a Microsoft Office Specialist and Microsoft Certified Trainer, he is highly experienced in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, MS Project, and VBA. He also works with, and trains on, Outlook, Publisher, and Visio. The training he has done includes all these applications on all levels, from beginner to advanced. He has written MS Office training manuals for several IT training companies in South Africa.