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Excel Tutorial 12 Expanding Excel With Visual Basic For Applications

This document discusses various ways to expand Excel functionality through Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). It covers recording and editing macros, working with the VBA editor interface, using objects and properties, conditional statements, variables, user input, and customizing Excel's interface. The goal is to help users create customized Excel applications through VBA macros and programming.

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Excel Tutorial 12 Expanding Excel With Visual Basic For Applications

This document discusses various ways to expand Excel functionality through Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). It covers recording and editing macros, working with the VBA editor interface, using objects and properties, conditional statements, variables, user input, and customizing Excel's interface. The goal is to help users create customized Excel applications through VBA macros and programming.

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Excel Tutorial 12

Expanding Excel
with Visual Basic
for Applications

COMPREHENSIVE

Objectives

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Create a macro using the macro recorder


Work with the Project Explorer and
Properties window of the VBA Editor
Edit a sub procedure
Run a sub procedure
Work with VBA objects, properties, and
methods
Create an input box to retrieve
information from the user
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Objectives

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Create and run If-Then control


structures
Work with comparison and logical
operators
Create message boxes
Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
Customize Excel

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Developing an Excel
Application
If the Excel Developer tab is not on the

Ribbon, click the Office Button, click


the Excel Options button, click
Popular in the Excel Options dialog
box (if necessary), click the Show
Developer tab in the Ribbon check
box to insert a check mark, and then
click the OK button

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Working with the Visual


Basic
Editor
In the Code group on the Developer

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tab, click the Macros button


Click the macro name in the Macro
name box, if necessary, and then click
the Edit button

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Working with the Visual


Basic
Editor
A project
is a collection of macros,

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worksheets, data-entry forms, and other items


that make up the customized application
youre trying to create
Project Explorer is the window in the Visual
Basic Editor that displays a hierarchical list of
all currently open projects and their contents
The Project Explorer window is dockable
An object is any element within the Excel
working environment such as a worksheet,
cell, workbook, or even Excel itself
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Working with the Visual


Basic
Editor
A property is an attribute of an object

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that defines one of its characteristics, such


as its name, size, color, or location on the
screen
You can view a list of properties for any
object in the Properties window
A module is a collection of VBA macros
The Code window displays the VBA
macro code associated with any item in
Project Explorer
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Working with the Visual


Basic Editor

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Working with Sub


Procedures
A sub procedure performs an action on your

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project or workbook, such as formatting a cell or


displaying a chart
A function procedure returns a value
A property procedure is used to create custom
properties for the objects in your project
Syntax refers to the set of rules that specify how
you must enter certain commands so that VBA
interprets them correctly
A comment is a statement that describes the
behavior or purpose of a procedure, but does not
perform any action

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Working with Sub


Procedures

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Referring to Objects

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VBA is an object-oriented
programming language, in which
tasks are performed by manipulating
objects

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Referring to Objects

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Objects are often grouped into


collections, which are themselves
objects, called collection objects

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Referring to Objects

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VBA organizes objects and object


collections in a hierarchy with the Excel
application at the top and the
individual cells of a workbook at the
bottom

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Referring to Objects

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Applying Methods

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A method is an action that can be


performed on an object, such as closing
a workbook or printing the contents of
a worksheet

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Working with Variables and


Values
A variable is a named element in a

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program that can be used to store and


retrieve information
Every variable is identified by a unique
variable name
Dim variable as type

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Retrieving Information from


the User

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Working with Conditional


Statements

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Working with Conditional


Statements

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Working with Conditional


Statements

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Working with Conditional


Statements

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Creating a Message Box

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MsgBox Prompt, Buttons, Title

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Customizing the Quick
Access
Toolbar
Click the Office
Button, and then click Excel Options
Click Customize in the Excel Options list
Click the Customize Quick Access Toolbar arrow, and
select whether to customize the toolbar for all
documents or a specific workbook
To add a command to the Quick Access Toolbar, click
the command in the left list box, and then click the
Add button
To remove a command from the Quick Access
Toolbar, click the command in the right list box, and
then click the Remove button
Click the OK button
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Customizing the Quick


Access Toolbar

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Customizing Excel Screen


Elements
Excel screen elements fall into three

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general categories with elements that


are: (1) part of the Excel program, (2)
part of the Excel workbook window, and
(3) part of the Excel worksheet

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Excel Customization Options

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Using the Save As PDF Add- XP


In
PDF (Portable Document Format) is
a file format developed by Adobe
Systems that supports all of the
elements of a printed document but in
an electronic format that is easily
shared
Add-in available from microsoft.com

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