Automating Excel: An Introduction to VBA

Why Should You Attend:

Do you find yourself repeatedly performing the same actions or tasks in your spreadsheets? If the answer is "Yes", it’s time to learn how to create a macro.

Although Excel has a macro recorder, there's a limit to what it can do. So, where the macro recorder's functionality ends, VBA takes over. At a more advanced level, VBA enables you to, amongst other things, build your own worksheet functions, create automated workflows and control and interact with other applications.

This webinar is aimed at advanced users of Excel, with little or no programming experience, who wish to "dip their toe into the VBA water"

VBA is one of the must have skills for Excel Power Users. VBA will save you, your colleagues and your customers hours of time by allowing you to automate any Excel-based task or process. If you've never used VBA before and you'd like to learn about the basics of VBA and automation, this webinar is for you.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Getting familiar with the VBA Editor
• Understanding VBA jargon such as procedures, modules, methods and properties
• How to edit an existing macro
• How to write a simple macro from scratch using VBA
• Creating inline documentation
• Using VBA to control what happens a file is opened or closed

Who Will Benefit:

• Accountants
• CPAs
• CFOs
• Financial Consultants
• Controllers
• Banking
• Finance
• Insurance
• Education
• Telecom
• IT
• Marketing
• Sales
• Investments
• Pharmaceutical
• Medical Devices
• FDA
• Aviation
• Energy
• Retail
• Human Resource
• Logistics & Supply Chain
• Accounts
• Audit

Mike Thomas
IT Training Specialist, The Excel Trainer

Mike Thomas has worked in the IT training business since 1989. He is a subject matter expert in a range of technologies including Microsoft Office and Apple Mac. In 2012, he founded theexceltrainer.co.uk where he has produced nearly 200 written and video-based Excel tutorials. He has recorded several Excel training courses for pluralsight.com and in his career delivered hundreds of courses and webinars on a variety of Excel topics.

Mr. Thomas is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors. In addition to training, he also designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.

Topic Background:

VBA is the programming language that is built in to Excel (and the other applications in the MS Office Suite). VBA is used to automate tasks that would otherwise have to be performed manually by pressing keys and selecting items with the mouse - and if that sounds like a macro - well it is.

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