Excel 2013: Macros in Depth Training

NB: There are Video Tutorials supporting this eBook. Link to video training is inclusive.

Want to save time on routine tasks in Microsoft Excel? Macros are your answer. In this course, we will explains how macros can be used to automate tasks in Excel, and how you can create simple macros of your own. Learn how to record a macro in stages, share macros between workbooks, set up keyboard shortcuts to run macros quickly, and use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to code macros that can't be recorded. The course wraps up with a macro project that brings together each of the elements in a real-world scenario: converting mailing list data into a database-friendly format.

Topics include:

Understanding what macros can do for you

Running macros

Creating a Personal Macro Workbook

Recording macros

Creating non-recordable VBA code

Expanding a macro with statements

Using absolute and relative references

Testing a macro in Step mode

Joining two macros

Using loop structures

Streamlining macros

If you want to eliminate some of the drudgery associated with repetitious command sequences or data manipulation tasks, then you need to know more about macros, Excel's automation capability. We will show you when it is appropriate to use macros, creating macros by recording keystrokes, expanding a macro for more than one task, launching macros with keystroke shortcuts and toolbar buttons, editing VBA code and making sense of that VBA environment. Debugging and testing macros via step mode and split screens, and expanding the power of macros with do loops and if statements. We will show this power as we get started with Excel 2013: Macros in Depth.

The skills acquired from this version are mostly applicable to newer versions of Excel.

If you think that Microsoft Excel is only for business purposes, you are wrong. Many use it for various personal needs at home too. Some of the features that you should understand about Microsoft Excel to unlock the potentiality of this application are working with spreadsheets, cell formatting, various menus and toolbars, entering of data and editing the same, navigating between various spreadsheets, formula calculation, inserting various functions like date/time, mathematical functions, using of various charts that are available, inserting, editing and deleting comments on cells, etc.

Computer Based Training (CBT) is a way to master MS Excel. This is where you take your own time to master the application. With the help of CBT, you get realistic, interactive and complete training. You get to learn right from what a beginner should learn to advanced level. Once the training is over, you would have mastered Microsoft Excel. You get to see simulations of Microsoft Excel application software. Some CBT also offer review quiz questions to gauge your understanding. CBT generally offer interactive, complete and comprehensive training. As it offers practice questions, you will be able to understand better and gain confidence in using the application. According to me, this is one of the best ways to learn Microsoft Excel.

The concept of spreadsheeting has been around for hundreds of years. The process can be described as the ability to arrange numbers, characters and other objects into rows and columns. It is most common that spreadsheets only contain numbers and text. The software version of spreadsheeting basically takes the manual processes described above and puts them into an electronic format. Whilst the accounting industry which most commonly uses spreadsheets they can be used in any situation.

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