COURSE NAME: Excel 2003 - Introduction to VBA (4060)

Course length: 2 days

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.

Prerequesite Courses:

• Excel 2003 - Level 1 (4060) or equivalent knowledge
• Excel 2003 - Level 2 (4060) or equivalent knowledge
• Excel 2003 - Level 3 (4060) or equivalent knowledge

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.

Course content:

Lesson 1: Developing Macros

• Create a Macro with the Macro Recorder
• Edit a Macro
• Debug a Macro
• Customize Toolbars, Menus, and Hotkeys

Lesson 2: Formatting Worksheets

• Sort Data
• Insert Rows and Columns
• Insert Text
• Format Text
• Duplicate Data
• Generate a Report

Lesson 3: Creating an Interactive Worksheet

• Determine Dialog Box Type
• Capture User Input

Lesson 4: Working with Multiple Worksheets

• Insert, Copy, and Delete Worksheets
• Rename Worksheets
• Modify the Order of Worksheets
• Print Worksheets

Lesson 5: Performing Calculations

• Create User-defined Functions
• Automate SUM Functions