Thank you for sending your enquiry! One of our team members will contact you shortly.
Thank you for sending your booking! One of our team members will contact you shortly.
Course Outline
Part I. Squeeze More from Excel
Overview of Tools on the Data Tab
- Accessing external data - do you really need to visit the bank's website daily to check current CHF exchange rates?
- Establishing connections to external data (Access, Web, Text, XML, etc.)
- Multi-level sorting - rules and proper sorting options
- Efficient Advanced Filtering - how to create filters with access to filtering criteria
- Fast Text-to-Columns
- Deleting duplicate data
- Enforcing correct data input - how to ensure data is in a specific format
- Simulation Analysis - how to prepare a professional presentation of possible scenarios
- Simulation Analysis - how to estimate formula results
- Grouping and AutoSubtotals - how to roll up rows and columns and display different levels of detail
PivotTable and PivotChart
- Calculated Fields - how to add a PivotTable field that does not exist on the sheet
- Computed fields within the table
- Data grouping and creating professional-looking statements
Part II. Automation via VBA
Macros
- Recording and editing macros: Silent recording settings
- Macro storage locations - where is the best place to write macros?
Introduction to Procedural Programming - The Essentials
- Sub and Function - how to invoke them and their purpose
- Data Types - why variables are needed and whether it is worth declaring them
- The conditional statement If ... Then .... ElseIf .... Else .... End If
- Case statement and associated traps
- For ... Next loop, For ... Each loop
- While ... Loop and Until ... Loops
- Loop exit instructions
Visual Basic in Action
- Downloading and uploading data to a spreadsheet (Cells, Range)
- Interfacing with the user via InputBox and MsgBox
- Scope and lifetime of variables
- Operators and their precedence
- Useful module options
- Code protection - safeguarding code from tampering and inspection
- Key Excel objects: Application, Workbook, Workbooks, Worksheet, Worksheets,
- ThisWorkbook, ActiveWorkbook, ActiveCell, Selection, Range, Cells, ...
Debugging
- Immediate Window
- Locals Window
- Stepping through code - what to do when something stops working
- Watch Window
- Call Stack
Error Handling
- Types of errors and methods to avoid them
- Capturing and handling run-time errors, and why properly written code may sometimes fail
- Constructs: On Error Resume Next, On Error GoTo label, On Error GoTo 0
Requirements
At least intermediate 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
