Microsoft Excel 2019 VBA and Macros


November 2018

Microsoft Excel 2019 VBA and Macros

Renowned Excel experts Bill Jelen (MrExcel) and Tracy Syrstad explain how to build more powerful, reliable, and efficient Excel spreadsheets.

Being able to automate Excel tasks with VBA vaulted my career.

Bill Jelen, MrExcel
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category: VBA, Programming
covers: Microsoft 365, Excel 2019

Product Details
  • 624 Pages
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press
  • ISBN: 978-1-5093-0611-4
  • PDF ISBN: 978-1-5093-0721-0

Use this guide to automate virtually any routine Excel task: save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks. Make Excel do things you thought were impossible, discover macro techniques you won’t find anywhere else, and create automated reports that are amazingly powerful. Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad help you instantly visualize information to make it actionable; capture data from anywhere, and use it anywhere; and automate the best new features in Excel 2019 and Excel in Office 365. You’ll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, and 50 workbooks packed with examples and complete, easy-to-adapt solutions.

  • Quickly master Excel macro development
  • Work more efficiently with ranges, cells, and formulas
  • Generate automated reports and quickly adapt them for new requirements
  • Learn to automate pivot tables to summarize, analyze, explore, and present data
  • Use custom dialog boxes to collect data from others using Excel
  • Improve the reliability and resiliency of your macros
  • Integrate data from the internet, Access databases, and other sources
  • Automatically generate charts, visualizations, sparklines, and Word documents
  • Create powerful solutions with classes, collections, and custom functions
  • Solve sophisticated business analysis problems more rapidly
  1. Introduction
  2. Unleash the Power of Excel with VBA
  3. This Sounds Like BASIC, So Why Doesn't It Look Familiar?
  4. Referring to Ranges
  5. Looping and Flow Control
  6. R1C1-style Formulas
  7. Creating and manipulating Names in VBA
  8. Event Programming
  9. Arrays
  10. Creating Classes and Collections
  11. Userforms: An Introduction
  12. Data Mining with Advanced Filter
  13. Using VBA to Create Pivot Tables
  14. Excel Power
  15. Sample User-Defined Functions
  16. Creating Charts
  17. Data Visualizations and Conditional Formatting
  18. Dashboarding with Sparklines
  19. Reading from and Writing to the Web
  20. Text File Processing
  21. Automating Word
  22. Using Access as a Back End to Enhance Multiuser Access to Data
  23. Advanced Userform Techniques
  24. Windows Application Programming Interface (API)
  25. Handling Errors
  26. Customizing the Ribbon to Run Macros
  27. Creating Add-Ins
  28. An Introduction to Creating Office Add-ins
  29. What's New in Excel 2019 and What's Changed

About the Series

The Business Skills series offers techniques and best practices, and often presents extended real-world scenarios to give the reader the "whole picture": approach, planning, execution, sequence, and special considerations.


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Other Editions


VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel 2007

August 2007

As the macro language for Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic for Applications enables you to achieve tremendous efficiencies in your day-to-day use of Excel. Stop producing those manual reports! The solution is to automate those manual processes in Excel using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Every copy of Excel shipped since 1993 includes VBA lurking behind the cells of the worksheet.


VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel

May 2004

In this book, Jelen and Syrstad reveal exactly why the macro recorder fails. They will teach you how to understand recorded code so that you can quickly edit and improve the 10% of recorded code that is preventing your applications from running flawlessly every day.


VBA & Macros for Microsoft Excel 2016

November 2015

Use this guide to automate virtually any routine task: save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks! Make Excel do things you thought were impossible, discover macro techniques you won’t find anywhere else, and create automated reports that are amazingly powerful.


VBA and Macros: Microsoft Excel 2010

July 2010

Using Microsoft Excel 2010 VBA scripting features, Excel users can save dozens - or even hundreds - of hours per year. But most Excel users have never written a VBA script: many haven't even used Excel's built-in Macro Recorder. VBA and Macros is the solution. One simple step at a time, two leading Excel VBA scripting experts teach all the techniques needed to automate virtually any Excel task and customize virtually any Excel report or business solution.


VBA and Macros Microsoft Excel 2013

February 2013

Use Excel 2013 VBA and Macros to automate virtually any routine task, and save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks. Then, learn how to make Excel do things you thought were simply impossible! You’ll discover macro techniques you won’t find anywhere else and learn how to create automated reports that are amazingly powerful and useful.


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