Excel 2019/365 - Macro

Master Excel (Formulas, Functions, Sorting/Filtering, Pivot Tables, Charts)

Do you want to save time on routine tasks in Microsoft Excel? Macros are the answer. In this course the instructor explains how macros can be used to automate tasks in Excel, and how you can create simple macros yourself. You will learn when and how to record a macro step-by-step, share macros between workbooks, set up keyboard shortcuts to execute macros quickly, and use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to code macros that cannot be recorded. The course ends with a macro project that brings all the elements together in a realistic scenario: converting mailing list data into a database-friendly format.

Understand what macros can do for you

• Introduction
• Definitions
• Macro Recorder Limitations

Show the Developer tab

• To have access to all macro options and tools

Differences between General Macro's (personal macro workbook) and local macros (workbook)

• Specificities of general macros
• Print to a specific printer. + Put a staple
• Open a specific template / Daily file
• Specificities of local macros (For others...)
• Refresh all PivotTables
• Multiple Sort keys and filter
• How to choose the macro type

Recording macros

• How to correctly name the macro
• How to choosing where to store the macro
• Description of the macro
• How to properly record the macro
• how to stop the macro recording

Assigning macros

• Different types of media running (icon key, button or shortcut)

Using relative references in macros

• To create a local macro (workbook) that has as a general macro in the file

Access VBA code

Without knowing VBA there are simple modifications that can be made:

• Rename a macro
• Merge macros
• Splitting a macro into multiple macros
• Delete commands
• Modify commands
• Reorganize orders

Deleting macros

• Deleting a local macro

Practical Exercise Scenario's + Tips & Tricks

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