Microsoft Excel: Visual Basic for Applications (VBA): Level 7 - Advanced Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

Course Overview

This course is aimed at people who already have a very good knowledge of Excel VBA and who wish to improve on this to create more effective, interactive and user friendly procedures, and extend the reach of their VBA code into areas outside of the Excel application.

This Microsoft training course will help you stay competitive, sharpen your skills and could enhance your Microsoft career prospects.

Related Courses

• Microsoft Excel: Introduction for Beginners (1 day)
• Microsoft Excel: Data Analysis Decision Making/Solve Business Problems (1 day)
• Microsoft Excel: Visual Basic For Applications (VBA) Programming (2 day)
• Microsoft Excel: Formulae & Functions (1 day)
• Microsoft Excel: Data Analysis Decision Making/Solve Business Problems (2 day)
• Microsoft Excel: Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Programming (4 day)
• Microsoft Excel: Charts, Pivot Tables & Macros (1 day)
• Microsoft Excel: Financial Modelling (2 day)
• Microsoft Excel: Business Modelling for Telecoms (2 day)
• Microsoft Office: Word, Excel & PowerPoint: Introduction for Beginners (1 day)

Skills Gained

Objectives

• Write code that prevents or diminishes the chance of errors and failures occurring when a macro is run.
• Write procedures that automatically run when an action is initiated either by the user or by the system.
• Enable interaction between a user and a procedure using a custom user form (dialog box) and ActiveX Worksheet controls.
• Use VBA to create, structure and format charts.
• Use VBA to create, structure and update Pivot Tables.
• Produce code that interacts with and facilitates the use of other Microsoft Office application objects.

Prerequisites

Students who wish to attend this course need to have significant experience and ability at understanding and using Excel advanced functionality and have attended the Microsoft Excel Level 5 and Level 6 courses.

Course Outline

Error Handling & Trapping

• Evaluating Data Using IF Statements
• Error Handling Code
• Trapping Errors with Error Numbers
• The TypeName Function

Event Procedures

• Events Associated with Worksheets
• Events Associated with a Workbook
• Timed Events

Custom User Forms and Form Controls

• User-Defined Forms
• Adding Controls to a Form
• Form Controls Design Tools and Techniques
• Form Control Properties
• Programming a User Form
• Displaying a User Form
• Using ActiveX Controls directly on a Worksheet

Working with Charts

• Creating Charts
• Sizing and Positioning Charts
• Naming Charts
• Adding a Series to a Chart
• Deleting Series from a Chart
• Formatting Charts

Working with Pivot Tables

• The Pivot Table Object
• Creating a Pivot Table
• Naming Pivot Tables
• Manipulating Pivot Table Fields
• Refreshing Pivot Tables

Interacting with Other Office Applications

• Communicating with Word and PowerPoint using Excel VBA

 

Microsoft Excel: Visual Basic for Applications (VBA): Level 7 - Advanced Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) / XLL7

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