Microsoft Excel 2003 Introduction to VBA

	In the previous Excel courses, you used Excel to simplify business tasks, including the creation of spreadsheets, graphs, charts, and formulas that were difficult to create and nearly impossible to maintain using pencil and paper. You now want to simplify your work in the Excel environment by automating many of the repetitive tasks that are part of spreadsheet development. In this course, you apply the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language to simplify many of the tasks you learned in  the Microsoft Excel 2003 Introduction and Microsoft Excel 2003 Intermediate courses.
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Locations

Infero Ltd is based in the Lace Market in Nottingham. Training courses take place at the following locations including Nottingham, Derby, Loughborough, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Burton-on-Trent, Lincoln, Leicester, Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Birmingham, Solihul, Coventry, Nuneaton, Peterborough, Grantham.

Target Students

Students looking to gain the skills necessary to apply VBA to develop macros, format worksheets, create user-interactive macros, work with multiple worksheets, and perform calculations. In addition, students who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print worksheets that include charts and sorted and filtered data.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students are recommended to take the following courses, or have equivalent knowledge:

• Microsoft Excel 2003 Introduction
• Microsoft Excel 2003 Intermediate
• Microsoft Excel 2003 Advanced

Delivery Method

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Certification

This course is one of a series of courses that addresses Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (Microsoft Business Certification) skill sets. The Microsoft Certified Application Specialist program is for individuals who use Microsoft's business desktop software and who seek recognition for their expertise with specific Microsoft products. Certification candidates must pass one or more proficiency exams in order to earn Microsoft Certified Application Specialist certification.

Course Objectives

You will use VBA to create macros for automating repetitive tasks in Excel 2003.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Developing Macros

Topic 1A: Create a Macro with the Macro Recorder.
Topic 1B: Edit a Macro.
Topic 1C: Debug a Macro.
Topic 1D: Customize Toolbars, Menus, and Hotkeys.

Lesson 2: Formatting Worksheets

Topic 2A: Sort Data.
Topic 2B: Insert Rows and Columns.
Topic 2C: Insert Text.
Topic 2D: Format Text.
Topic 2E: Duplicate Data.
Topic 2F: Generate a Report.

Lesson 3: Creating an Interactive Worksheet

Topic 3A: Determine Dialog Box Type.
Topic 3B: Capture User Input.

Lesson 4: Working with Multiple Worksheets

Topic 4A: Insert, Copy, and Delete Worksheets.
Topic 4B: Rename Worksheets.
Topic 4C: Modify the Order of Worksheets.
Topic 4D: Print Worksheets.

Lesson 5: Performing Calculations

Topic 5A: Create User-defined Functions.
Topic 5B: Automate SUM Functions.