Mastering Excel VBA Programming
A Hands-On Guide to Automating Excel and Building Custom Solutions with VBA and Macros
Published on 25. February 2025
Book
Hardback
478 pages
978-1-915476-15-9 (ISBN)
Description
Leverage the full power of Excel with VBA
This guide will provide you with all the information you need to automate any task in Excel and save time and effort. Learn how to extend Excel's functionality with VBA to create solutions not possible with the standard features.
Mastering Excel VBA Programming takes you step-by-step from beginner to expert with Excel VBA. This book starts with the basics, so you don't need prior programming experience to start learning how to create solutions with Excel VBA. If you already have some experience with this popular application, this book will enhance your knowledge and experience.
Practical examples for hands-on learning
Mastering Excel VBA Programming is a practical guide, and it comes with several practice labs and downloadable solution files that enable you to follow the examples in the book hands-on. Screenshots illustrate the concepts, features, and tasks covered.
This book covers Excel 2024 and the latest version of Excel for Microsoft 365 (2025 update).
With this book, you will:Quickly use Excel macros to automate repetitive tasks.
Master VBA fundamentals including variables, arrays, decision structures, and loops.
Use debugging tools to eliminate even the most difficult-to-find errors.
Learn efficient techniques for handling unexpected errors and providing users with clear custom messages.
Understand the Excel objects hierarchy and how to access and use Excel objects in code.
Programmatically create and manipulate workbooks and worksheets.
Use the Range object to access worksheet cells and ranges to work with data and worksheet formulas.
Create sophisticated custom dialog boxes and data entry forms with UserForms.
Access and use external data from Microsoft Access and SQL Server with ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).
Programmatically generate charts and pivot tables for visualizations and summarizing large sets of data for presentations and analysis.
Create User-Defined Functions (UDFs) for custom calculations.
Convert your VBA application to an Excel Add-in to deploy to users.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1086 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915476-15-9 (9781915476159)
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Nathan George is a data scientist at Tink in Stockholm, Sweden, and taught data science as a professor at Regis University in Denver, CO for over 4 years. Nathan has created online courses on Pythonic data science and uses Python data science tools for electroencephalography (EEG) research with the OpenBCI headset and public EEG data. His education includes the Galvanize data science immersive, a PhD from UCSB in Chemical Engineering, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.