Sheryl,

There is no hard and fast rule as how long you need to work
with Excel before using VBA. You can start learning both
at the same time.
When using Excel, I'm sure that you've run into tasks that
you do repetitively. This is when the light bulb should go
off and you say "Hmmmm?? I wonder if there's a way to make
this easier??
That's where VBA comes in handy.
There are also a lot of things in Excel that just can't be done
without using VBA.
First thing that I'd suggest is to pick a repetitive task that you
do and "Record" a macro to do it.
Then try running that macro when you need to do the same task again.

David McRitchie has some links to tutorials about 2/3 of the way
down on this page:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm

One of those links is to VBA 101 from Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...01/default.asp

John

wrote:

I've been using excel for a while. Except for a class in
programming "Basic", I have no real programming
experience.

However, I'd still like to learn VBA? How long should you
have been working with Excel before starting?

Sheryl