Excel 2016: Macros in Depth

Explore ways to save time by automating tasks with macros in Microsoft Excel.

Introduction

• Automating your work with Excel macros

1. Getting Started

• Identifying applicable situations for using macros
• How to play back, run, or execute a macro
• Recording and testing a macro
• Overview of VBA: Altering macro code
• Understanding security

2. Running a Macro

• Running a macro from the Developer tab or the View tab
• Record a macro and play it back from the Quick Access Toolbar
• Run a macro from a keystroke shortcut
• Run a macro from a button or Clip Art image

3. Using VBA

• The VBA window and VBA components
• Creating the Personal Macro Workbook
• Closing and updating the Personal Macro Workbook

4. Recording a Macro in Stages

• Recording a simple macro
• Expanding a macro with the If statement

5. Creating Nonrecordable VBA Code

• Understanding when to use absolute or relative references
• Using For and For...Next statements
• Using Do While and Do Until statements
• Creating interactive macros

6. Macro Project: Converting a Mailing List into a Database List

• Planning a macro
• Recording partial code
• Using loop structures in context
• Testing a macro in step mode
• Pulling the data together
• Joining two macros
• Streamlining macros

Conclusion

• Next steps