Excel Skills Simplified: Tutorials That Actually Work
Manipulating dates and times in Excel using VBA opens up a world of automation and custom functionality that goes far beyond what standard worksheet functions can offer. While Excel itself is quite good with dates (storing them as serial numbers), VBA gives you programmatic control to parse, calculate, format, and interact with dates and times in powerful ways. Let’s see how you can wield this capability.
When learning to automate Excel tasks with VBA, you’ll naturally start by recording macros. This is a common first approach. The macro recorder generates code that relies heavily on the Select method. It selects a worksheet, then a range, before performing actions. While this approach works, it’s less efficient. It makes your code slower and more error-prone, especially when users switch between sheets. Fortunately, VBA offers more direct ways to interact with worksheets and ranges without the need for explicit selection.
Using VLOOKUP within a VBA script can automate repetitive tasks or complex projects, enhancing efficiency and accuracy in data processing. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to use VLOOKUP with VBA in Excel:
Microsoft Excel provides a built-in tool called UserForms that allows you to create custom data entry forms and dialog boxes. UserForms can enhance the user experience by simplifying data input and interaction within your Excel workbooks. Our step-by-step guide shows you how to create advanced UserForms in Excel with custom controls and VBA automation.
Scientific notation is a way of writing very large or very small numbers in a compact and consistent format. Scientific notation is commonly used in VBA programming for fields such as engineering, chemistry, physics, and mathematics.
In Excel, you can use scientific notation to display numbers in cells or charts, or you can use VBA to manipulate numbers in scientific notation.
In this Excel VBA tutorial lesson, you will see how to Run the SQL statements in Excel.
In this article we will learn to use Regex in Excel.
In this article, we will learn to perform string operations using Excel VBA. A string can be any text or a combination of text and numbers. VBA offers several functions to perform string operations:
In this Excel tutorial lesson, I will guide you through the basics of Excel VBA and how you can use Excel VBA to write to a cell in an Excel sheet.