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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 |
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Sheryl, A pretty wide open question . . . but I would answer it with whenever you want to learn it! I got my feet wet with VBA by recording a couple of macros and then looking at the code the "recorder" built compared with the steps I performed while recording. And then, if you think something can be done, it probably can be. VBA Help was also, and still is, my best friend in learning what commands are available as well as a good source of examples. Hope this helps! JerryG :) ------------------------------------------------ ~~ Message posted from http://www.ExcelTip.com/ ~~View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ ~~Now Available: Financial Statements.xls, a step by step guide to creating financial statements |
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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 |
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LOLOLOLOL *s
-----Original Message----- At least a day -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software wrote in message ... 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 . |
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Thanks *s I already tried to do some formatting Macros but ran into trouble when I wanted to use the [down][end] combination to locate the next subtotal. I used the buttons when recording the macro, but when I re-ran the macro it simply went to the same cell location as before (although all the subtotals had moved since I was working with another list). Got stumped right away... Sheryl -----Original Message----- Sheryl, A pretty wide open question . . . but I would answer it with whenever you want to learn it! I got my feet wet with VBA by recording a couple of macros and then looking at the code the "recorder" built compared with the steps I performed while recording. And then, if you think something can be done, it probably can be. VBA Help was also, and still is, my best friend in learning what commands are available as well as a good source of examples. Hope this helps! JerryG :) ------------------------------------------------ ~~ Message posted from http://www.ExcelTip.com/ ~~View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ ~~Now Available: Financial Statements.xls, a step by step guide to creating financial statements . |
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Thanks -- I'm going to go check out some of those
tutorials. Also, I don't know any "power users" of excel, is there a good text reference you'd recommend? -----Original Message----- 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.aspx? scid=/support/excel/content/vba101/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 . |
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