Overview
In the previous Excel courses, you used Excel to simplify business tasks, including the creation of spreadsheets, graphs, charts, and formulas that were difficult to create and nearly impossible to maintain using pencil and paper. You now want to simplify your work in the Excel environment by automating many of the repetitive tasks that are part of spreadsheet development. In Excel 2003: Introduction to VBA you apply the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language to simplify many of the tasks you learned in Excel 2003: Level 1 and Excel 2003: Level 2.
Course Objectives
You will use VBA to create macros for automating repetitive tasks in Excel 2003.
Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the Excel 2003: Level 2 Wintrac course or have equivalent knowledge.
Target Student
Students looking to gain the skills necessary to apply VBA to develop macros, format worksheets, create user-interactive macros, work with multiple worksheets, and perform calculations. In addition, students who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print worksheets that include charts and sorted and filtered data.
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Develop macros.
- Format worksheets.
- Create an interactive worksheet.
- Work with multiple worksheets.
- Perform calculations.
Delivery Method
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities
Course duration
1 Day(s)
Course outline
Lesson 1: Developing Macros
- Topic 1A: Create
a Macro with the Macro Recorder
- Topic 1B: Edit
a Macro
- Topic 1C: Debug
a Macro
- Topic 1D: Customize
Toolbars, Menus, and Hotkeys
Lesson 2: Formatting Worksheets
- Topic 2A: Sort
Data
- Topic 2B: Insert
Rows and Columns
- Topic 2C: Insert
Text
- Topic 2D: Format
Text
- Topic 2E: Duplicate
Data
- Topic 2F: Generate
a Report
Lesson 3: Creating an Interactive Worksheet
- Topic 3A: Determine
Dialog Box Type
- Topic 3B: Capture
User Input
Lesson 4: Working with Multiple Worksheets
- Topic 4A: Insert,
Copy, and Delete Worksheets
- Topic 4B: Rename
Worksheets
- Topic 4C: Modify
the Order of Worksheets
- Topic 4D: Print
Worksheets
Lesson 5: Performing Calculations
- Topic 5A: Create
User-defined Functions
- Topic 5B: Automate
SUM Functions
Appendix A: Microsoft Office Specialist Program
Platform Requirements
Hardware Requirements
For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one
for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware
components:
- A 233 MHz Pentium-class processor if you use Windows XP Professional
as your operating system (300 MHz is recommended).
- A 133 MHz Pentium-class processor if you use Windows 2000
Professional as your operating system.
- 128 MB of RAM.
- A 5 GB hard disk or larger if you use Windows XP Professional
as your operating system. You should have at least 600 MB free hard-disk space
available for the Office installation
- A 3 GB hard disk or larger if you use Windows 2000 Professional
as your operating system. You should have at least 600 MB free hard-disk space
available for the Office installation.
- A CD-ROM and floppy-disk drive.
- A mouse or other pointing device.
- An 800 x 600 resolution monitor.
- Network cards and cabling for local network access.
- Internet access (see your local network administrator).
- A printer (optional).
- A projection system to display the instructor's computer screen.
Software Requirements
- Either Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1, or Windows
2000 Professional with Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Enterprise Edition
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