What Is VBA And How It Is Helpful In Excel
VBA which stands for Visual Basic for Applications is a computer programming language which is used to control Microsoft Excel’s functionality. It is also used to control Microsoft Word, Power point or other programs by macro. All major Microsoft office products come standard with VBA. Excel is controlled by VBA by means of macros which are really called procedures.
Where Are Excel Macros Stored And Run
In MS Excel VBA code is typed in the VBA editor which are also known as modules. A module corresponds to a word document in both organization and typing. Users can can type different commands in these modules and then run them to control Microsoft Excel program. When VBA modules are organized automatically the process is known as VBA project which can also be defined as collection of modules and other programming elements. Whenever a spreadsheet is created in MS Excel, new VBA project will automatically gets created and associated with that workbook. A single workbook in Excel contains only 1 VBA project and you can add VBA modules, codes, and other elements to that VBA project. For multiple workbooks in Excel seperate VBA are created with other elements.
How To Use VBA In MS Excel
In The Excel Configuration tool pictured below evaluates a trade study of Total Gross Weight of an aircraft versus payload. It automatically charts its results and is capable of rapidly evaluating different aircraft configurations. Rapid design and analysis tools for engineering can be easily constructed in Excel. This program can be seen in our Advanced Excel VBA for Engineers and Scientist workshop.
The Excel program pictured below is a simple example built in our Advanced Excel VBA for Business workshop and demonstrates how to build a multi- chart / multi-worksheet data processing program in Excel. It takes two master worksheets and develops n worksheets from those sheets evaluating statistical information and then charting the results automatically. A very common and time consuming task is facing the business world today. The program pictured reduced an all day task to 20 sec.
