Excel VBA Bootcamp: VBA Programming with Practical Workouts (Udemy.com)

Understand what you are going to achieve through the VBA by seeing demo and then see step by step explanation of VBA code. Learn about Excel VBA syntax, Excel VBA form and control, methods of  using forms and controls, several workout examples to see usage of Excel VBA for automation.

In this course, you will learn following stuff in step by step manner

Level 01 – start without coding – Automate tasks using Excel Macro recording  

• Demo of an excel macro  

• What is excel macro  

• When to use it  

• How to record a macro/create a shortcut action  

• How to run a recorded macro  

• How to create a shortcut for a macro action  

• How to run a recorded macro on a new dataset (excel workbook)  

• How to record a relative macro  

• What is the difference between a relative macro and a general macro.  

• How to understand what was recorded as macro.  

• How to delete a macro  

Level 02 A – Understand Excel VBA integrated development environment

• How to reach VBA window  

• What are different component of the window  

• What is use of those components  

• How to use breakpoint, properties window, edit tools etc.  

Level 02 B – Understand Excel VBA syntax  

• How to define a variable  

• Different types of variables  

• How to write a for loop  

• How to display output in an interactive way  

• How to write output in a different worksheet  

• How to take user input through a prompt  

• How to use user input  

• How to use record macro to know VBA syntax  

• How to use breakpoint  

• How to run macro through click of a button  

• When you need to write do while / do until loop  

• Syntax of do while / until loop  

• How to take input from excel sheet for program execution  

• How to ensure variable names are correct before execution of program  

• If else command, If elseif else command  

• Using mod function (for remainder)  

• Showing status bar  

Workout Examples 01 – Using Forms for user entry, chart display etc.  

• See a worked out example of a VBA form  

• Learn about various control, design aspects of Excel VBA form  

• Learn about why will need form, and such controls  

• Hide Data sheet and format other sheet to make it look professional  

• Ensure proper data type  

• Ensure value selection from combo box only  

• Learn to define level, text, combobox and button command  

• Learn to pass dropdown data in combobox  

• Learn to use form entry into VBA  

• Learn to write back on Excel form  

• Learn how to load form while getting excel started  

• Learn to change properties of control through VBA  

Workout Examples 02 – fetching data from MS Access using Excel VBA  

• How to use Excel as front end and fetch data from microsoft Access database  

• Where to use this à Greatly useful when many users have Excel but don't have MS access database in the PC  

• Where Reference is needed  

• Watch window - how to use it  

• How to edit the code for many fields and different databases  

Workout Examples 03 – One sheet per product or agent  

• How to use do while loop to let it run for as many records as it has got  

• How to find block size (starting and ending row for each product)  

• How to add sheet using VBA and give it a name  

• How to ensure that the tool remains intact with multiple runs and even a mistake can't cause issue  

• How to repeat header in each tab or worksheet  

Workout Examples 04 – Inventory management, coupon assignment and customer communication using Excel VBA  

• Traverse through various sheets and workbooks using VBA            

• Formatting date                

• Writing derived information from one sheet to another   

• Passing several parameters to VBA for conditional traversal           

  • 3 should mean three coupons to get reserved  

  • [Coupon code : Validity] will need comma if there are multiple vouchers  

• Error handling : alert, if there are no coupons       

• Protecting Excel tool for further usage     

Workout Examples 05 – Reading data from a microsoft access database and writing it into a text file

• Reading Microsoft Access data using VBA

• directly writing output into a text file

• Making the output comma separated 

Workout Example 06 - Designing survey form in Excel VBA with option buttons / list box etc.

Workout Example 07 - Insert Excel VBA form data in MS Access database 

Workout Example 08 - Using pivot table, vlookup and several other formula for a sampling work 

Workout Example 09 - Windows based user authentication and Voice notification of execution of VBA

Workout Example 10 - Running SQL command through VBA. Read Excel sheet as a table inside VBA

You will learn

• Reading complete worksheet data into a table

• Managing named as well as unnamed headers

• Running SQL command inside VBA

• Little advance SQL coding as well (by product)

  • A-B

  • B-A

Workout Example 11 - Voice based reminder tool

You will learn how to remind speaker about how much time is left through automated announcement.

Workout Example 12 - Running VBA code in automated manner

You will learn what is takes to used Windows scheduler to schedule the VBA code to run in automated manner with desired frequency.

Workout Example 13 - Recursive file and folder size within a folder

Many a times we need a tool, which should recursively put file names and file sizes within a folder.

I mean to say that, if you pass name of a folder and say in that folder, it has

1. 11 files

2. 2 folders