Using Visual Basic (VBA) in Excel

Course overview

What you will learn

By the end of this expert level Excel course, you will be able to:

• Understand what Visual Basic is
• Create macros to automate tasks, as well as understand their limits
• Manipulate the values in your spreadsheet
• Declare variables, and manipulate them
• Write code which looks at a condition and carries out different actions accordingly
• Write functions, frequently used pieces of code
• Understand the Excel object model, and make use of its properties, methods and events
• Trap errors, to avoid users seeing problems and find problems in your code
• Write code which repeats an action a specified number of times

Course timetable

Day 1

Session 1 — Macros

• Creating macros
• Limits of macros

Session 2 — Editing Macros

• Editing Macros in the Visual Basic Editor
• Understand the Personal Workbook
• Find and Replace
• Deleting Macros

Session 3 — Introducing VBA

• What is VBA?
• Modules and procedures

Day 2

Session 1 — Collections

• How to refer to objects in a collection
• Using the Immediate Window to explore collections
• Making code more succinct.

Session 2 — Variables

• Defining and referring to variables

Session 3 — Error trapping and debugging

• Types of Error
• The Debug Toolbar
• Breakpoints and Break Mode

Day 3

Session 1 — Built-in functions

• MsgBox and InputBox Functions Revisited
• String Manipulation Functions
• Nesting Functions
• Date Functions
• Type Checking Functions

Session 2 — Control structures and Branching

• If Statements
• Data Validation
• Select Case

Session 3 — Control structures and Looping

• For… Next
• For Each…
• Do… loops.

This course can be delivered in the classroom or remotely via GoToTraining. Contact us for availability and pricing, or see our Live Online Learning page for our interactive 90-minute webinars that cover specific sessions. 

The Small Print

This course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes) on all three days. Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

The happy Guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

Coronavirus Update

Due to current government guidelines we have temporarily closed our training centre in London. All of our staff are now working remotely, and all classroom training has been postponed until 29^th May.

We have developed a fantastic range of interactive webinars delivered by our experienced facilitators, Live Online Learning. We understand that for many people this will be the first time that they have worked from home and so we have developed short 1.5-2 hour sessions to help you adjust to this new situation. You can see details of our IT Skills live online learning sessions here and our Personal Development sessions here – or we can adapt any of our classroom training into webinar format for you.

For the latest government guidance, please visit the gov.uk website.

We will continue to monitor the situation and will advise all clients if the situation changes.

If you have any questions or concerns, or would like to arrange some online training, our friendly team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. You can leave a message on 020 7375 7300 or email us at hello@happy.co.uk.