Creating Advanced Excel VBA Apps Self-Study Manual

Our Excel VBA manual covers the topics which enable you to develop advanced interface driven data processing, database, and dashboard apps. The manual starts off with covering the Excel VBA fundamentals used in the construction of advanced Excel VBA tools. Basically, it is our beginning Excel VBA writeup.

It then shows how to build advanced interfaces using userforms, ActiveX controls, events, worksheets, charts, pictures, and drawing shapes.

Also covered are advanced data processing topics like multi worksheet/workbook data processing; reading and writing to text files; commanding and controlling the Windows folder and file system; and looping through and scanning workbooks for data in multiple folders.

It also covers essential data processing topics like tracking and finding data and using loops and logic to shift through complex data patterns. Last our manual covers how to use Excel VBA to control external applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook and how to use ADO and SQL to query databases, text files, and workbooks.

• Complete VBA Editor, module, debugger, and language review
• How to use and type Excel objects, properties, and methods in VBA
• How to track and find multiple Excel objects at once in VBA using loops and the Set statement
• Controlling Excel settings, worksheets, workbooks, file pickers... with VBA
• Controlling ranges, cells, formulas, names, fonts, borders, colors, number formats with VBA
• Controlling Data Validation, sorting, filters, Excel tables, Queries... with VBA
• How to automate repetitive worksheet calculations with Excel VBA
• Using VBA to fill tables/forms, and insert, delete, copy/paste, and format table rows/columns
• How to use VBA to control and build Excel charts
• Advanced strategies for processing complex data patterns on multiple worksheets
• How to build basic and advanced GUIs in Excel from VBA, ActiveX, userforms, events, shapes...
• How to create custom worksheet functions that process data and perform advanced calculations
• How to control the Windows folder system with Excel VBA
• Commanding databases and text files using VBA, DAO, ADO, and SQL
• Combining Excel VBA and Outlook to create rapid report generations tools