Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros: Your Guide to Efficient Automation
Renowned Excel experts Bill Jelen (MrExcel) and Tracy Syrstad explain how to build more powerful, reliable, and efficient Excel spreadsheets.

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 in Microsoft 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.

By reading this book, you will gain the following skills:

  • Confident VBA programmer: Readers will learn to write and understand VBA code, automating complex Excel tasks.
  • Data manipulation mastery: They'll gain the ability to import/export data, interact with cells programmatically, and manipulate data efficiently.
  • Advanced reporting automation: Readers will learn to generate and update charts and pivot tables through code, creating powerful automated reports.
  • One-click data analysis: They'll develop the skills to build custom buttons that transform raw data into comprehensive reports with a single click, streamlining their workflow.

The structure of the book is to provide an explanation of a concept followed by an example of how the concept would be used. Sample code in a chapter often builds up from previous samples in the same chapter. Larger code samples include comments so the user understands the progression of the program.

1147236586
Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros: Your Guide to Efficient Automation
Renowned Excel experts Bill Jelen (MrExcel) and Tracy Syrstad explain how to build more powerful, reliable, and efficient Excel spreadsheets.

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 in Microsoft 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.

By reading this book, you will gain the following skills:

  • Confident VBA programmer: Readers will learn to write and understand VBA code, automating complex Excel tasks.
  • Data manipulation mastery: They'll gain the ability to import/export data, interact with cells programmatically, and manipulate data efficiently.
  • Advanced reporting automation: Readers will learn to generate and update charts and pivot tables through code, creating powerful automated reports.
  • One-click data analysis: They'll develop the skills to build custom buttons that transform raw data into comprehensive reports with a single click, streamlining their workflow.

The structure of the book is to provide an explanation of a concept followed by an example of how the concept would be used. Sample code in a chapter often builds up from previous samples in the same chapter. Larger code samples include comments so the user understands the progression of the program.

73.14 Pre Order
Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros: Your Guide to Efficient Automation

Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros: Your Guide to Efficient Automation

by Tracy Syrstad, Bill Jelen
Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros: Your Guide to Efficient Automation

Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros: Your Guide to Efficient Automation

by Tracy Syrstad, Bill Jelen

Paperback

$73.14 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Available for Pre-Order. This item will be released on October 4, 2025

Related collections and offers


Overview

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

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 in Microsoft 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.

By reading this book, you will gain the following skills:

  • Confident VBA programmer: Readers will learn to write and understand VBA code, automating complex Excel tasks.
  • Data manipulation mastery: They'll gain the ability to import/export data, interact with cells programmatically, and manipulate data efficiently.
  • Advanced reporting automation: Readers will learn to generate and update charts and pivot tables through code, creating powerful automated reports.
  • One-click data analysis: They'll develop the skills to build custom buttons that transform raw data into comprehensive reports with a single click, streamlining their workflow.

The structure of the book is to provide an explanation of a concept followed by an example of how the concept would be used. Sample code in a chapter often builds up from previous samples in the same chapter. Larger code samples include comments so the user understands the progression of the program.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780135410233
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/04/2025
Series: Business Skills
Pages: 600
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Tracy Syrstad has been deeply immersed in the world of Excel programming for 20 years, acquiring a comprehensive skillset largely through independent learning. VBA is more than just a programming language for her; it's a tool to unlock efficiency. Tracy's passion for empowering clients through automated projects and one-on-one Excel programming instruction extends beyond personal development. This hands-on experience, combined with her proven track record of authoring seven previous VBA books for Microsoft Press, equips her with the unique ability to translate complex Excel concepts into clear and engaging content for a broad audience.

Bill Jelen is the host of MrExcel.com and the author of 67 books about Microsoft Excel including Excel Gurus Gone Wild, Pivot Table Data Crunching, and Microsoft Excel Inside Out. He was an ESPN commentator for the World Excel Championships, has made over 80 guest appearances on TV's Call for Help with Leo Laporte and was voted guest of the year on the Computer America radio show. He writes the Excel column for Strategic Finance magazine. He has produced over 2400 episodes of his video podcast Learn Excel from MrExcel. Before founding MrExcel.com in 1998, Jelen spent twelve years “in the trenches”, as a financial analyst for the accounting, finance, marketing, and operations departments of a publicly held company.

Table of Contents

1     Unleashing the Power of Excel with VBA

2     This Sounds Like BASIC, So Why Doesn’t It Look Familiar?

3     Referring to Ranges, Names, and Listobjects

4     Laying the Groundwork with Variables and Structures

5     Looping and Flow Control

6     R1C1-Style Formulas

7     Event Programming

8     Arrays

9     Creating Classes and Collections

10    Userforms: An Introduction

11    Data Mining with Advanced Filter

12    Using VBA to Create Pivot Tables

13    Excel Power

14    Sample User-Defined and LAMBDA Functions

15    Creating Charts

16    Data Visualizations and Conditional Formatting

17    Dashboarding with Sparklines in Excel

18    Reading from the web using M and VBA

19    Text File Processing

20    Automating Word

21    Using Access as a Back End to Enhance Multiuser Access to Data

22    Advanced Userform Techniques

23    The Windows Application Programming Interface (API)

24    Handling Errors

25    Customizing the Ribbon to Run Macros[

26    Creating Excel Add-ins

27    An Introduction to Creating Office Add-ins

28    What’s New in Excel 365 and What’s Changed

From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews