Excel VBA Macros for Beginners These 15 novice macros provides the easiest way to

understand and learn the basics of VBA to deal with Excel Objects. Learning Basic Excel VBA
By Examples is the easiest way to understand the basics of VBA to deal with Excel Objects, in
this tutorial we will not covering any programming concepts, we will see how to access the
different Excel Object using VBA.

In this topic:

1. How To Access The Excel Range And Show The Value Using Message Box
2. How To Enter Data into a Cell
3. How To Change The Background Color Of A Particular Range
4. How To Change The Font Color And Font Size Of A Particular Range
5. How To Change The Text To Upper Case Or Lower Case
6. How To Copy Data From One Range To Another Range
7. How To Select And Activate Worksheet
8. How To Get The Active Sheet Name And Workbook Name
9. How To Add New Worksheet And Rename A Worksheet and Delete Worksheet
10. How To Create New Workbook, Add Data, Save And Close The Workbook
11. How To Hide And Unhide Rows And Columns
12. How To Insert And Delete Rows And Columns
13. How To Set The Row Height And Column Width
14. How To Merge and UnMerge Cells

15. How To Compare Two Values A Simple Example On If Condition

16. How To Print 1000 Values A Simple Example On For Loop
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18. Real-time Example Codes

Example 1: How To Access The Excel Range And Show The

Value Using Message Box
While automating most of the Excel Tasks, we need to read the data from Excel spread sheet
range and perform some calculations. This example will show you how to read the data from a
worksheet range.
'Example 1: How To Access The Excel Range And Show The Value Using Message Box
Sub sbExample1()
'It will display the A5 value in the message Box
MsgBox Range("A5")
'You can also use Cell Object to refer A5 as shwon below:
MsgBox Cells(5, 1) 'Here 5 is Row number and 1 is Column number
End Sub

Example 2: How To Enter Data into a Cell

After performing some calculations using VBA, we generally write the results into worksheet
ranges. This example will show you how to write the data from VBA to Spread sheet range or
cell.
'Example 2: How To Enter Data into a Cell
Sub sbExample2()
'It will enter the data into B5
Range("B5") = "Hello World! using Range"
'You can also use Cell Object as shwon below B6:
Cells(6, 2) = "Hello World! using Cell" 'Here 6 is Row number and 2 is Column number
End Sub

Example 3: How To Change The Background Color Of A

Particular Range
The following example will help you in formatting a cell or range by changing the background
color of a range. We can use ColorIndex property of a Ranger Interior object to change the fill
color of a range or cell.
'Example 3: How To Change The Background Color Of A Particular Range
Sub sbExample3()
'You can set the background color using Interior.ColorIndex Property
Range("B1:B5").Interior.ColorIndex = 5 ' 5=Blue
End Sub

Example 4: How To Change The Font Color And Font Size Of A

Particular Range
You may need to change the font color of range or cell sometimes. We can differentiate or
highlight the cell values by changing the text color of range in the worksheet. The following
method will use the font ColorIndex property of a range to change the font color.
'Example 4: How To Change The Font Color And Font Size Of A Particular Range
Sub sbExample4()
'You can set the background color using Interior.ColorIndex Property
Range("B1:B10").Font.ColorIndex = 3 ' 3=Red
End Sub

Example 5: How To Change The Text To Upper Case Or Lower

Case
This example will help you to change the text from lower case to upper case. We use UCase
Function to do this. If you wan tot change the text or string from upper case to lower case, we
can use LCase function.

'Example 5: How To Change The Text To Upper Case Or Lower Case

Sub sbExample5()
'You can use UCase function to change the text into Upper Case
Range("C2").Value = UCase(Range("C2").Value)
'You can use LCase function to change the text into Upper Case
Range("C3").Value = LCase(Range("C3").Value)
End Sub

Example 6: How To Copy Data From One Range To Another

Range
This example will help you to copy the data from one particular range to another range in a
worksheet using VBA.
'Example 6: How To Copy Data From One Range To Another Range
Sub sbExample6()
'You can use Copy method
Range("A1:D11").Copy Destination:=Range("H1")
End Sub

Example 7: How To Select And Activate Worksheet

This example will help you to select one particular worksheet. To activate one particular sheet
we can use Activate method of a worksheet.
'Example 7: How To Select And Activate Worksheet
Sub sbExample7()
'You can use Select Method to select
Sheet2.Select
'You can use Acctivate Method to activate
Sheet1.Activate
End Sub

Example 8: How To Get The Active Sheet Name And Workbook

Name

We can use Name property of a active sheet to get the worksheet name. We can use name
property of active workbook to get the name of the active workbook.
'Example 8: How To Get The Active Sheet Name And Workbook Name
Sub sbExample8()
'You can use ActiveSheet.Name property to get the Active Sheet name
MsgBox ActiveSheet.Name
'You can use ActiveWorkbook.Name property to get the Active Workbook name
MsgBox ActiveWorkbook.Name
End Sub

Example 9: How To Add New Worksheet And Rename A

Worksheet and Delete Worksheet
We can Name property of worksheet to rename or change the worksheet name. We can use
Add method of worksheets to add a new worksheet. Use Delete method to delete a particular
worksheet.
'Example 9: How To Add New Worksheet And Rename A Worksheet and Delete Worksheet
Sub sbExample9()
'You can use Add method of a worksheet
Sheets.Add
'You can use Name property of worksheet
ActiveSheet.Name = "Temporary Sheet"
'You can use Delete method of a worksheet
Sheets("Temporary Sheet").Delete
End Sub

Example 10: How To Create New Workbook, Add Data, Save

And Close The Workbook
The following examples will help you to adding some data, saving the file and closing the
workbook after saving the workbook.
'Example 10: How To Create New Workbook, Add Data, Save And Close The Workbook

Sub sbExample10()
'You can use Add method of a Workbooks
Workbooks.Add
'You can use refer parent and child object to access the range
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1") = "Sample Data"
'It will save in the deafult folder, you can mention the full path as
"c:\Temp\MyNewWorkbook.xls"
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs "MyNewWorkbook.xls"
ActiveWorkbook.Close
End Sub

Example 11: How To Hide And Unhide Rows And Columns

We can use hidden property of rows or columns of worksheet to hide or unhide the rows or
columns.
'Example 11: How To Hide And Unhide Rows And Columns
Sub sbExample11()
'You can use Hidden Propery of Rows
Rows("12:15").Hidden = True 'It will Hide the Rows 12 to 15
Rows("12:15").Hidden = False 'It will UnHide the Rows 12 to 15
'You can use Hidden Propery of Columns
Columns("E:G").Hidden = True 'It will Hide the Rows E to G
Columns("E:G").Hidden = False 'It will UnHide the Rows E to G
End Sub

Example 12: How To Insert And Delete Rows And Columns

This example will show you how to insert or delete the rows and columns using VBA.
'Example 12: How To Insert And Delete Rows And Columns
Sub sbExample12()
'You can use Insert and Delete Properties of Rows
Rows(6).Insert 'It will insert a row at 6 row
Rows(6).Delete 'it will delete the row 6
'You can use Insert and Delete Properties of Columns
Columns("E").Insert 'it will insert the column at E
Columns("E").Delete 'it will delete the column E

End Sub

Example 13: How To Set The Row Height And Column Width
We can set the row height or column width using VBA. The following example will show you how
to do this using VBA.
'Example 13: How To Set The Row Height And Column Width
Sub sbExample13()
'You can use Hidden Propery of Rows
Rows(12).RowHeight = 33
Columns(5).ColumnWidth = 35
End Sub

Example 14: How To Merge and UnMerge Cells

Merge method of a range will help you to merge or unmerge the cell of range using VBA.
'Example 14: How To Merge and UnMerge Cells
Sub sbExample14()
'You can use Merge Property of range
Range("E1:E5").Merge
'You can use UnMerge Property of range
Range("E1:E5").UnMerge
End Sub

Example 15: How To Compare Two Values A Simple Example

On If Condition
When dealing with Excel VBA, often we compare the values. A Simple Example On If Condition
will help you to understand -How To Compare Two Values?
'Example 15:
'How To Compare Two Values A Simple Example On If Condition
Sub sbExample15()

'A Simple Example On If Condition

'We will campare A2 and A3 value using If
If Range("A2").Value = Range("A3") Then
MsgBox "True"
Else
MsgBox "False"
End If

Example 16: How To Print 1000 Values A Simple Example On

For Loop
Another useful statement in VBA is For, helps to loop through the rows, columns or any number
of iteration. See the belwo example to understand the For loop:
'How To Print 1000 Values A Simple Example On For Loop
'A Simple Example On For Loop
'We will print 1- 1000 integers in the Column E
For i = 1 To 1000
Cells(i, 5) = i 'here 5= column number of E
Next i
'showing status once it is printed the 1000 numbers
MsgBox "Done! Printed 1000 integers in Column E"
End Sub