Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros: Your guide to efficient automation

Renowned Excel experts Tracy Syrstad and Bill Jelen (MrExcel) help you automate Excel tasks to get more done faster than ever!

This book is designed to equip you with a solid foundation in Microsoft Excel Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and help you progress to advanced techniques like in-memory processing and custom object programming for efficient data manipulation. You will learn to write and understand VBA code, automate complex Excel tasks, import and export data, interact with cells programmatically, and manipulate data efficiently. You’ll also learn advanced reporting automation, enabling you to generate and update charts and pivot tables through code and develop programs that transform raw data into comprehensive reports with a single click of a button. With clear explanations and practical examples, Tracy Syrstad and Bill Jelen help make complex tasks a breeze!

You’ll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, project specification solutions, and 50 workbooks packed with examples and complete, easy-to-adapt solutions.

By reading this book, you will:

  • Quickly master Excel macros development —even if you’re starting with no prior experience.
  • Learn the foundations of VBA through clear, step-by-step guidance.
  • Gain insider techniques for cleaner code, better structure, and long-term maintainability.
  • Go beyond how-to tutorials: learn how professionals approach automation.
  • Design advanced userforms with multiple views, custom controls, and data validation.
  • Use custom objects and collections to write scalable, object-oriented code.
  • Extend Excel’s power by automating Word, Outlook, and other Office programs.
  • Integrate data from the internet, Access, text fi les, and other sources.
  • Leverage advanced filter techniques to isolate and manipulate large datasets efficiently.
  • Share your programs using Excel Add-ins (XLAM), Office Add-ins (Office.js), and Office Scripts

About This Book

  • For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time
  • For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data
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Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros: Your guide to efficient automation

Renowned Excel experts Tracy Syrstad and Bill Jelen (MrExcel) help you automate Excel tasks to get more done faster than ever!

This book is designed to equip you with a solid foundation in Microsoft Excel Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and help you progress to advanced techniques like in-memory processing and custom object programming for efficient data manipulation. You will learn to write and understand VBA code, automate complex Excel tasks, import and export data, interact with cells programmatically, and manipulate data efficiently. You’ll also learn advanced reporting automation, enabling you to generate and update charts and pivot tables through code and develop programs that transform raw data into comprehensive reports with a single click of a button. With clear explanations and practical examples, Tracy Syrstad and Bill Jelen help make complex tasks a breeze!

You’ll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, project specification solutions, and 50 workbooks packed with examples and complete, easy-to-adapt solutions.

By reading this book, you will:

  • Quickly master Excel macros development —even if you’re starting with no prior experience.
  • Learn the foundations of VBA through clear, step-by-step guidance.
  • Gain insider techniques for cleaner code, better structure, and long-term maintainability.
  • Go beyond how-to tutorials: learn how professionals approach automation.
  • Design advanced userforms with multiple views, custom controls, and data validation.
  • Use custom objects and collections to write scalable, object-oriented code.
  • Extend Excel’s power by automating Word, Outlook, and other Office programs.
  • Integrate data from the internet, Access, text fi les, and other sources.
  • Leverage advanced filter techniques to isolate and manipulate large datasets efficiently.
  • Share your programs using Excel Add-ins (XLAM), Office Add-ins (Office.js), and Office Scripts

About This Book

  • For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time
  • For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data
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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

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Renowned Excel experts Tracy Syrstad and Bill Jelen (MrExcel) help you automate Excel tasks to get more done faster than ever!

This book is designed to equip you with a solid foundation in Microsoft Excel Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and help you progress to advanced techniques like in-memory processing and custom object programming for efficient data manipulation. You will learn to write and understand VBA code, automate complex Excel tasks, import and export data, interact with cells programmatically, and manipulate data efficiently. You’ll also learn advanced reporting automation, enabling you to generate and update charts and pivot tables through code and develop programs that transform raw data into comprehensive reports with a single click of a button. With clear explanations and practical examples, Tracy Syrstad and Bill Jelen help make complex tasks a breeze!

You’ll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, project specification solutions, and 50 workbooks packed with examples and complete, easy-to-adapt solutions.

By reading this book, you will:

  • Quickly master Excel macros development —even if you’re starting with no prior experience.
  • Learn the foundations of VBA through clear, step-by-step guidance.
  • Gain insider techniques for cleaner code, better structure, and long-term maintainability.
  • Go beyond how-to tutorials: learn how professionals approach automation.
  • Design advanced userforms with multiple views, custom controls, and data validation.
  • Use custom objects and collections to write scalable, object-oriented code.
  • Extend Excel’s power by automating Word, Outlook, and other Office programs.
  • Integrate data from the internet, Access, text fi les, and other sources.
  • Leverage advanced filter techniques to isolate and manipulate large datasets efficiently.
  • Share your programs using Excel Add-ins (XLAM), Office Add-ins (Office.js), and Office Scripts

About This Book

  • For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time
  • For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780135410301
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 09/19/2025
Series: Business Skills
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 35 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

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

CHAPTER 1      Unleashing the power of Excel with VBA

CHAPTER 2      This sounds like BASIC, so why doesn’t it look familiar?

CHAPTER 3      Referring to ranges, names, and tables

CHAPTER 4      Laying the groundwork with variables and structures

CHAPTER 5      Looping and flow control

CHAPTER 6      R1C1 style formulas

CHAPTER 7      Event programming

CHAPTER 8      Arrays

CHAPTER 9      Creating custom objects and collections

CHAPTER 10   Userforms: An introduction

CHAPTER 11   Data mining with Advanced Filter

CHAPTER 12   Using VBA to create pivot tables

CHAPTER 13   Excel power

CHAPTER 14   Sample user-defined functions

CHAPTER 15   Creating charts

CHAPTER 16   Data visualizations and conditional formatting

CHAPTER 17   Dashboarding with sparklines in Excel

CHAPTER 18   Reading from the web using M and VBA

CHAPTER 19   Text file processing

CHAPTER 20   Automating Word

CHAPTER 21   Using Access as a back end to enhance multiuser access to data

CHAPTER 22   Advanced userform techniques

CHAPTER 23   The Windows Application Programming Interface (API)

CHAPTER 24   Handling errors

CHAPTER 25   Customizing the ribbon to run macros

CHAPTER 26   Creating Excel add-ins

CHAPTER 27   An introduction to creating Office Add-ins

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