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Learning Excel VBA
Hello,
I am interested in learning VBA to improve my excel knowledge. I would appreciate to hear what you folks recommend as far learning resources you have had good success with. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Mark |
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Hi Mark
The combination of a thick book and a useful real-life project to build. HTH. Best wishes Harald "mak" skrev i melding ... Hello, I am interested in learning VBA to improve my excel knowledge. I would appreciate to hear what you folks recommend as far learning resources you have had good success with. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Mark |
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One way assuming you are newbie and need some basics
Most MVP's have web sites that are very helpfull.' For starters try some video http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/ExcelMain.htm HTH "Harald Staff" wrote: Hi Mark The combination of a thick book and a useful real-life project to build. HTH. Best wishes Harald "mak" skrev i melding ... Hello, I am interested in learning VBA to improve my excel knowledge. I would appreciate to hear what you folks recommend as far learning resources you have had good success with. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Mark |
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Mark,
I agree with Harald's suggestion but I would make that two thick books, a useful real-life project and a lot of time. And if you get stuck, there's always help available on this and other NGs (and it's free!) You'll learn best by making mistakes. Henry "Harald Staff" wrote in message ... Hi Mark The combination of a thick book and a useful real-life project to build. HTH. Best wishes Harald "mak" skrev i melding ... Hello, I am interested in learning VBA to improve my excel knowledge. I would appreciate to hear what you folks recommend as far learning resources you have had good success with. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Mark |
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Yep- the best way to learn is to dig yourself into a hole, and then dig
yourself out. Another good way to learn VBA code is to cheat: record a few macros, analyze the code that is automatically generated, and modify it to do different things. |
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Spend more time in the .programming newsgroup.
Read the questions and responses. And after awhile, you can try your own code. If it works, post it. If it doesn't work, post what you tried and ask for help. Even if you don't post, it'll be worth your effort trying. You'll soon find out who's style you want to emulate. And who you knows what about what. Then read their posts as much as you can. mak wrote: Hello, I am interested in learning VBA to improve my excel knowledge. I would appreciate to hear what you folks recommend as far learning resources you have had good success with. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Mark -- Dave Peterson |
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Mark,
You ask a really thorny question. Fair warning: I'm about to go off on a rant here. We all have a preferred learning method. Some, Harald f'rinstance, prefer thick books. Thanks be. I've written eleven such doorstops and they've been reasonably well-received. And I've never, ever read a book on Excel. God knows I've tried. I own a couple of them and I've furiously studied some of their chapters: the original Microsoft Step by Step book on VBA, and Eric Wells' book on Excel 95 Solutions -- particularly the chapters on DAO, which are now obsolete. But my preferred method of learning is to respond to a client's request and when I fail to come up with a solution, search the newsgroups, and as a final resort the Knowledge Base. (I've been beat up pretty good a couple of times for having posted a stupid question, which convinced me that there really _are_ stupid questions.) Sometimes even that fails -- I recently could not find a working solution to a problem with Excel 97 .CurrentPage. Along with many other old-timers, I originally learned Excel and the arcane Excel 4.0 macro language, and eventually VBA, from the erstwhile CompuServe forum, similar to this one, albeit more dignified. I can recall sitting at my tube at 6:00 a.m. reading answers provided by Rech, Umlas, LaTour, Greenblatt, Baarns, Lacher, Bovey (and many others whose names will doubtless come to me the next time 3:00 a.m. rolls around and I'll bury my head under the pillow for having left them out), sipping coffee and thinking, "Cool. Does that _really_ work?" Turned out it did, and that's always been my own preferred learning method. But my accountant, a _really_ smart person, doesn't know the meaning of "newsgroup" and has taken five classroom courses on Excel and as of last year still didn't know about custom lists (Jan, Feb, Mar, etc.) and AutoFill. Part of the problem is that so many companies that purport to teach Excel have sunk costs in spiral bound books that were written for Excel 4.0 or 95, and they still haven't gotten them out of inventory. The remainder of my accountant's problem concerns not being suited for unidirectional classroom learning, but for some kind of interactive situation. And I have an in-law (I like him anyway) who has made a bundle in commercial real estate but who couldn't enter a SUM function to save his life until he got a friend -- not me, he lives in Missouri -- to sit down with him in front of a keyboard/monitor and hold his hand while showing him how to enter formulas and functions. Obviously, this is the most labor-intensive and expensive manner of learning, and it's a good thing that Steve could afford it because he wasn't going to learn any other way. The fact that the Video Professor still has the resources to advertise on television suggests that some people can be convinced to regard videotape/DVD as a good learning medium -- or, less cynically, that videotape fits some people's learning style. In other words, whatever trips your trigger, and you're the only one who can answer that question for certain for yourself. The previous replies in this thread offer very plausible options. I'm working on a new one; keep a good thought, OK? C^2 Conrad Carlberg Excel Sales Forecasting for Dummies, Wiley, 2005 -- "mak" wrote in message ... Hello, I am interested in learning VBA to improve my excel knowledge. I would appreciate to hear what you folks recommend as far learning resources you have had good success with. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Mark |
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