Excel 2016 VBA and Macros / Edition 1

by Bill Jelen, Tracy Syrstad

Overview

MASTER CORE EXCEL 2016 TOOLS FOR BUILDING POWERFUL, RELIABLE SPREADSHEETS!

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. Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad help you instantly visualize information, so you can act on it… capture data from anywhere, and use it anywhere… automate Excel 2016’s best new features. You’ll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, and 50 workbooks packed with bonus examples, macros, and solutions–straight from MrExcel!

• Get started fast with Excel macro development
• Work efficiently with ranges, cells, and formulas
• Build super-fast applications with arrays
• Automate Excel’s new pivot table enhancements
• Collect user data with custom dialogs
• Make your macros more reliable and resilient
• Pull data from the Internet with web queries
• Use advanced classes, collections, and custom functions
• Build sophisticated business analysis solutions
• Read and write to Access or SQL Server databases
• Control other Office programs, and Windows itself
• Write code that also works on older Excel versions
• Start writing Office Store-style Excel Apps

About MrExcel Library

Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will

• Dramatically increase your productivity–saving you 50 hours a year or more
• Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems
• Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have
• Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make

This book is part of Que’s Content Update Program. As Microsoft updates features of Excel, sections of this book will be updated or new sections will be added to match the updates to the software. See inside for details.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789755858
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	11/04/2015
Series:	MrExcel Library Series
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Bill Jelen, Excel MVP and the host of MrExcel.com, has been using spreadsheets since 1985, and he launched the MrExcel.com website in 1998. Bill was a regular guest on Call for Help with Leo Laporte and has produced more than 1,900 episodes of his daily video podcast, Learn Excel from MrExcel. He is the author of 44 books about Microsoft Excel and writes the monthly Excel column for Strategic Finance magazine. Before founding MrExcel. com, Bill Jelen spent 12 years in the trenches—working as a financial analyst for finance, marketing, accounting, and operations departments of a $500 million public company. He lives in Merritt Island, Florida, with his wife, Mary Ellen.

Tracy Syrstad is a Microsoft Excel developer and author of eight Excel books. She has been helping people with Microsoft Office issues since 1997, when she discovered free online forums where anyone could ask and answer questions. Tracy found out she enjoyed teaching others new skills, and when she began working as a developer, she was able to integrate the fun of teaching with one-on-one online desktop sharing sessions. Tracy lives on acreage in eastern South Dakota with her husband, one dog, two cats, one horse (two, hopefully soon), and a variety of wild foxes, squirrels, and rabbits.

Table of Contents

Introduction ....................................................................................1

What Is in This Book? ................................................................1

Reducing the Learning Curve ......................................1

Excel VBA Power .................................................................2

Techie Stuff Needed to Produce Applications ......................................................................................2

Does This Book Teach Excel? ........................................2

The Future of VBA and Windows Versions of Excel .....................................................................................4

Versions of Excel .................................................................4

Differences for Mac Users ..............................................4

Special Elements and Typographical Conventions ......................................................................................5

Code Files .........................................................................................5

Next Steps ........................................................................................5

1 Unleashing the Power of Excel with VBA .................................................................................7

The Power of Excel ......................................................................7

Barriers to Entry ...........................................................................7

The Macro Recorder Doesn’t Work! .........................7

No One on the Excel Team Is Focused on the Macro Recorder ..................................................8

Visual Basic Is Not Like BASIC......................................8

Good News: Climbing the Learning Curve Is Easy .............................................................................9

Great News: Excel with VBA Is Worth the Effort .................................................................................9

Knowing Your Tools: The Developer Tab .........................9

Understanding Which File Types Allow Macros .........................................................................................10

Macro Security ...........................................................................12

Adding a Trusted Location .........................................12

Using Macro Settings to Enable Macros in Workbooks Outside Trusted Locations ..................................................13

Using D