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March 22, 2022

Excel Macros For Dummies

Overview

Ready-made Excel macros that will streamline your workflow

Excel Macros For Dummies helps you save time, automate, and be more productive, even with no programming experience at all. Each chapter offers practical macros that you can implement right away, with practical exercises that extend your knowledge and help you understand the mechanics at work. You'll find the most effective Excel macros for solving common problems, and explanations of why and where to use each one, plus invaluable guidance and step-by-step instruction for applying them effectively. Learn how to customize your applications to look and work exactly the way you want them to, with simple, friendly walk-throughs that directly apply to real-world tasks. Follow it through from start to finish, or quickly look up problems as they occur; the book's clear layout and organization makes it an irreplaceable desk reference, and all macro code is available for download from the companion website.

Microsoft Excel is the world's leading spreadsheet application, and it supports VBA macros that allow you to customize the program and automate many common tasks. This book helps you take advantage of macros to get more done, and get it done better.

  • Grasp the fundamentals of VBA and macros
  • Work with workbooks, worksheets, and ranges
  • Clean data, automate reporting, and send email from Excel
  • Use tips and tricks that streamline your workflow

If you have an Excel problem, there's a macro to solve it. You don't need to be a programmer, and you don't need to spend months learning code. Excel Macros For Dummies gives you the "recipes" you need, and the knowledge to apply them effectively.

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About The Author

Michael Alexander is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer and a Microsoft MVP. He has written numerous books on advanced business analysis with Microsoft Access and Excel. His tutorial website, www.datapigtechnologies.com, provides tips on Excel and Access for the Microsoft Office community.

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Excel shortcut keys allow you to perform certain tasks using only the keyboard, the idea being that you increase your efficiency when you limit the number of instances your hands have to move back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse. Getting in the habit of using these shortcut keys can help you work more efficiently when using the Visual Basic Editor.

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Excel is everywhere. Companies in all types of industries hire Excel analysts to help provide insights and manage data. Knowing how to wrangle data and automate processes with macros will give you an advantage in the marketplace. These ten jobs are just some of hundreds of jobs available in the marketplace for Excel analysts with VBA macro skills.
One of the more annoying things in Excel is closing many workbooks at once. For each workbook you've opened, you need to activate the work, close it, and confirm the saving of changes. Excel has no easy way to close them all at once. This little macro takes care of that annoyance. How the macro works In this macro, the Workbooks collection loops through all opened workbooks.
In some situations, it's imperative that your Excel workbook be started on a specific worksheet. With this macro, if users are working with your workbook, they can't go astray because the workbook starts on the exact worksheet it needs to.In the example illustrated here, you want the workbook to go immediately to the sheet called Start Here.
Excel shortcut keys allow you to perform certain tasks using only the keyboard, the idea being that you increase your efficiency when you limit the number of instances your hands have to move back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse. Getting in the habit of using these shortcut keys can help you work more efficiently when using the Visual Basic Editor.
What to Press on Your Keyboard What It Does F5 Runs the current procedure or continues after pausing Ctrl + Break Halts the currently running procedure F8 Goes into debug mode and executes one line at a time Ctrl + F8 Executes code up until the cursor Shift + F8 Steps over the current line while in debug mode
What to Press on Your Keyboard What It Does Up arrow Moves up the project list one item at a time Down arrow Moves down the project list one item at a time Home Moves to the first file in the project list End Moves to the last file in the project list Right arrow Expands the selected folder Left arrow Collaps
What to Press on Your Keyboard What It Does Ctrl + Down Arrow Selects the next procedure Ctrl + Up Arrow Selects the previous procedure Ctrl + Page Down Shifts one screen down Ctrl + Page Up Shifts one screen up Shift + F2 Goes to the selected function or variable Ctrl + Shift + F2 Goes to the last position C
What to Press on Your Keyboard What It Does Alt + F11 Toggles between the VBE and Excel windows Shift + F10 Displays the active window's shortcut menu Ctrl + R Opens the Project Explorer F4 Opens the Properties window F2 Opens the Object Browser F1 Opens VBA Help F7 Activates the open module window
Once you have an external data connection, you can use the connection properties to point to another database table or query. You can even write your own SQL statements. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the language that relational database systems (such as Microsoft Access) use to perform various tasks. You can pass instructions right from Excel by using SQL statements.
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