Excel VBA Basic to Super Advance

In Section 1 Introduction to VBA, You will learn what is a VBA and how you can use it to automate your daily small office tasks.

• How to do Macro recordings. edit it, run it, debug it. 

• How to Run VBA programs or delete them or give shortcut keys.

• Know the concept of finding out the last row - blank row or non-blank row of your data

• How to select the data from top to bottom or vice versa - static and dynamic approaches with their advantages, and disadvantages over each other.

• How to turn wrong steps into correct while recording the steps.

• How to run a program step by step and why we need it for debugging.

• Move from one sheet to another. What errors we can expect if the sheet name changes like a Subscript out of a Range error?

• Know how to compile data from different sheets and put it under one sheet using recording and with a basic understanding of sheets and ranges.

In Section 2 Variables, You will start knowing what are  Variables and their importance in VBA or any programming language.

• Introduction to Variables and their data types. How to define variables and the benefits of using them.

• Data types. Strings. Integer, Single, byte, Double, Variants - we have covered all. Amazing questions coming out from these live classes.

• What if errors like - OverFlow and Type Mismatch come - Know the reason and of course a solution.

• What are debugging windows - Local window.

• Why we want Option Explicit - How to declare it and what benefit it provides.

• Frequently Asked Questions in your interview related to option explicit and  Variables.

• How to connect more than one macro using a Call keyword.

• How long a Variable remains in VBA -Scope of a Variable - Local variable, module, private level and Public or Global level variables.

In Section 3 LOOPS & IFs, You will take a deep dive into knowing every type of loop in VBA along with IFs and Select Case statements.

• We are taking a deep dive into Loops and IF Functions with Select Case statements. You will not need to look back on Loops topic ever if you finish this course till the end.

• Detailed discussion on For Next loops - their use and significance. How to mould them in different ways and use them in your projects.

• Discussion on Do - While & Until loops from very basic level to advanced.

• Which loop is better or how about making a choice in loops over each other?

• Learn loops using the basic and complex patterns in order to get mastery. Print numbers in asc desc or diagonally patterns.

• Detailed discussion on IF functions and their different syntaxes. For example, Single IFs, IF AND, IF OR and Nested IFs.

• Use of Else-IF and when to use it, How it is different from IFs without Else-IF blocks. With real-time examples.

• How to work with hundreds of conditions in one go using IFs.

• What is a Case Select statement- How it can be an alternative to IF conditions in VBA?

• Dangerous to run Loops on F5 mode without testing the code.

• How to write Sub-Loops in Loops- you will find all relevant information here.

• IF with ELSE-IF and IF without Else IF.

In Section 4 Collection LOOPS, Learn how to work the small or large data set using Workbook/Worksheet commands, For Each Loop with practicals plus Classes -methods & properties with object browser concept.

• Are we interested in compiling the data from different worksheets and workbooks?

• How to go to different workbooks pull the data from there and compile it in one place.

• How to work with so many sheets without bothering about things - what name they have, if they will get deleted in future or if more sheets get added.

• These collection loops make you a great programmer. If you do not know this you can never be a great coder. Come and fall in love with them. Immensely helpful, interesting and powerful. So much fun.

• Learn How to work with workbooks and worksheets - Open, Save, Save as, delete, rename, move, add and many more such commands.

• How to open the workbooks, how to close one workbook, a specific workbook or all opened workbooks

• Learn how to delete or add workbooks, and how to jump from one workbook to another. From activating files to editing them -we are covering all.

• How to select or delete protect rename or add the worksheets in Excel.

• How to define the workbooks and worksheets in a professional manner using the "Set" Keyword. What is the advantage of declaring objects as classes?

• What happens if we declare set statements anywhere in the code? Is it allowed in VBA? Detailed discussion on the proper mentioning of dim and set statements while dealing with objects and classes.

• How VBA works when it comes to writing syntaxes. Discussion on the object hierarchy and its methods and properties.

• Questioning rounds in a live session to students to practice more on set keywords.

• What are collection loops and their basic syntaxes - their practical use?

• Loop through worksheets, workbooks and cells in a workbook.

• How to copy and paste the data from each of the sheets in a workbook or from different workbooks.

• What if you want to copy the data from multiple workbooks, going to each of the worksheets copying the data and pasting it in one single workbook? This is going to be done using a collection loop.

• What is a Dot Operator and how objects are classified in VBA? Learn about object methods and properties - What are these and what is the difference between them? Their significance in VBA.

In Section 5 ARRAYS, Learn how to do any type of complex calculations and comparisons - One /Two or multi-dimensional Arrays

• What are arrays? Why do we use them? Why they are so powerful and hold so much weight in VBA?

• What is their by-default index system and how we can change it using the option base? 

• What are static and dynamic arrays?

• How to use arrays with VBA loops and if functions. They work like magic together. 

• What is the use of Preserve word in arrays and how we can use it in projects?

• Complete the tutorial with an in-depth discussion.

• How to use the split function in arrays and what are the key things to be taken care of while using split in arrays?

• Questions were discussed from a VBA interview perspective as well.

• As usual- Assignments are also added to give you confidence and to check your progress.

• How to use Dim or Redim Statements.Their real use in projects. How to use variable values in Arrays and what is the purpose of using them in arrays?

• How to use Split function, one of the best functions we can use in arrays. How arrays work under split function.

• How option Base-1 works for arrays created by split function.

• What is the use of preserve word in arrays and how we can use it to hold the values? What happens if we do not use them?

• How and where we use them. Complete discussion on its use.

• Vlookup use - Lookup Project using Arrays

• Know the two or multi-dimensional arrays and their use in practical situations

In Section 6 FUNCTIONS, Learn how to create UDFs and use INBUILT Functions

• We are learning everything in detail about VBA inbuilt and User-created Functions from their roots.

• All Lectures are started from the basic level and then slowly move toward advanced levels

• The use of Inbuilt functions like Left, StrReverse, mid, find, trim, Lcase, Ucase, Date and Time etc are discussed.

• UDFs - User-defined functions in VBA - basic plus advanced, both level examples.

• Benefits of UDFs over Inbuilt functions. Many amazing projects are shared in the series.

• Can we pass in parameters in sub-routines and call Functions

• How do we run or Call Functions from Excel sheets? A mesmerizing thing to learn and implement in your project today.

• How to do testing of your functions like UDFs and Inbuilt VBA Functions.

• What is the process of passing parameters from a sub-routine to a function and how it is useful for us?

• Frequently Asked Questions in your VBA Interview.

• How do we use VLOOKUP in VBA at the advanced level project discussed? A real-time project is discussed.

• How can we use the Match function with Loops and VLOOKUP to create super powerful and wonderful practical automation?

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In section 7 File And Folder, We are Learning to deal with small or large data stored in Excel workbooks or text files using a library called SCRIPTING which offers us amazing classes like FileSystemObject, Folder and Files and Textstream.

• How to go inside a folder and pick the needed files and then do things like compiling data from them or modifying the files or moving them or deleting them.

• Learn how to use the file dialogues so that the user can choose any folder of his or her choice and work accordingly.

• Not just folders or Excel files -we are also going to see what to do if we have to overwrite or append the data in text files. Yes, we can even control the text files using a scripting library, Very useful especially when you are dealing with big data.

• Skip the files while running loops that you do not want. Set the filters in the extensions using file dialogues. Learn all types of file dialogues like open dialogue. save as dialogue, folder dialogue and also why and where we can use them.

• Customization of file dialog buttons, and titles to how to open multiple files with them to make a more user-friendly and robust program that can be run on any machine irrespective of the drives or folder paths they have.

• Learn to manipulate text files using a scripting library. We have everything discussed here from the basic level to an advanced level when it comes to file and folder manipulations.

In section 8 UserForms, we have covered all form controls like labels, textboxes, combo, list boxes, frame, option buttons, check boxes and many more.

• From understanding the Userform control design and properties, you shall also see the magic of user form events which are very much required to create projects.

• All of your doubts will be answered via email or forum in 24 hours.

In section 9 Error Handlers, you shall learn Error handlers like On error resume next and goto err.

• You shall see what are the scenarios when we already know we can have errors - VBA Errors so if we want to ignore those errors and keep continuing running the VBA code, how to do that first of all, why in the first place, I would like to ignore the errors.

• We will then learn how to use and customize a message box and input box in VBA with various examples.

In section 10 Event - Self Triggered Macros, we will learn how to work with events that we write inside the workbook and sheet modules.

• Why they are called self-triggered macros and what are the conditions - Events names we can go and use for different types of jobs.

• Learn amazing Events like - Workbook Open, Sheet Activate, sheet before Delete, Sheet Change Event, and Selection Change events.

• When one event starts calling another event and you never planned for it, how to avoid this class using a public variable?

• Few projects for you to give you more confidence in Events.

In Section 11 VBA Charts, we are learning about Chart automation. How to create new charts using VBA. We can fully automate the making of charts using VBA.

• Learn the Chart class called Chart and see how easy it is to create new charts.

• The role of macro recordings play a very important role here as most of the code we can record and later customize as per the requirement.

• How to work with existing charts in Excel. How to go to each of them one by one and do modifications. Any type of modification like changing chart design editing labels or chart titles etc

• Understand the Loop's importance in charts. You can loop through infinite charts using one simple collection loop.

• Collection loops of charts - to work with multiple charts either to delete them or to edit their design, and colours. You can do whatever. Even change the axes.

• Use of other Collection loops with chart collection loops.

In section 12 VBA Pivots, you will become a master in Pivots. From making new pivots to working on existing pivots and modifying them.

• Collection loops in PIvots - how to access pivots. How to loop pivot field items and fully control them.

• We will learn the classes we use in Pivots to handle new pivots or existing pivots like Pivot-table and Pivot cache classes.

• We will take a deep dive into knowing other classes as well which helps us in controlling the pivot fields and field items like pivot item class and pivot-field class.

• How to mix worksheet collection loops with pivot collection loops in real-time projects and what are the benefits of the same.

• What is the role of macro recording in making pivots and how to edit those recordings if the requirement changes?

• How to work with row or column of filter pivot fields. Line-by-line explanation.

In the Last Section, we are learning how to connect PowerPoint with Excel VBA.

• Discussing the connectivity of Excel with PowerPoint in this advanced series using Excel VBA.

• How to copy table data from Excel and paste it into PowerPoint application slides.

• How to export charts from Excel sheets to PowerPoint and paste them into one slide or more slides one by one.

• Taking a deep dive into PowerPoint classes like Presentation class, Slide class and shapes class. Understanding the PowerPoint object hierarchy.

• How every class is responsible for other classes using the dot hierarchy.

• How to work with already created PowerPoint applications and also how to create new PowerPoint applications and work with them.

• How to resize the charts or tables images in slides and move them to the top left or right of the slides.

• Control which chart should go in PowerPoint using the Excel sheet cells.

• How to loop through all sides and decide which one to delete or use for data presentation.

• Collection loops for slides as well as shapes. This is an amazing source of learning.

• Real-time project discussion with you to give you live exposure to working with PowerPoint.

• Understanding the concept of Early Binding and Late Binding methods or techniques.

• Several highly advanced level Projects for you - Fully automated and very very knowledgeable practical projects.

Who is this course for:

• Students who want to be Business analysts Data Analysts VBA Developers Marketing research analysts must take this program.
• Any Chartered Accountant Business Sales person or Marketing executive who likes to automate Excel tasks like copy paste data from different workbooks and putting the data into one file, creating own functions if not available in Excel, and creating the Excel templates on auto mode.
• Last but not least, any Data lover or enthusiast who wants to save time by not doing things manually in Excel and creating everything on buttons.