Excel 2019 Bible

Part VI: Automating Excel Macro A set of VBA instructions. Method An action taken on an object. For example, applying the Clear ...

Chapter 42: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 42 Recording your actions to create VBA code: the basics The Excel macro r ...

Part VI: Automating Excel Recording your actions always results in a new Sub procedure. You can’t create a Function procedure by ...

Chapter 42: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 42 If you don’t see the list of open workbooks, choose Project Explorer fr ...

Part VI: Automating Excel Notice that Excel inserted some comments at the top of the procedure. These comments are based on info ...

Chapter 42: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 42 Test this new macro, and you will see that it performs as it should. Ab ...

Part VI: Automating Excel Enter a new, single-word name for the macro to replace the default Macro1 name. A good name is TimeSt ...

Chapter 42: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 42 FIGURE 42.9 The TimeStamp procedure was generated by the Excel macro re ...

Part VI: Automating Excel FIGURE 42.10 This TimeStamp macro works correctly. Note that the second line now says ActiveCell.Selec ...

Chapter 42: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 42 More about recording VBA macros If you followed along with the precedin ...

Part VI: Automating Excel Choose Developer ➪ Code ➪ Macros (or press Alt+F8). The Macro dialog box appears. Select the macro na ...

Chapter 42: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 42 FIGURE 42.12 Adding a button to a worksheet so that it can be used to e ...

Part VI: Automating Excel This section is an introduction to VBA programming, which is essential if you want to write (rather th ...

Chapter 42: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 42 The Excel object model VBA is a language designed to manipulate objects ...

Part VI: Automating Excel Fortunately, VBA provides some shortcuts. Since Application is at the top, you can omit it, and VBA wi ...

Chapter 42: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 42 Contrary to what you may think, Excel doesn’t have a Cell object. When ...

Part VI: Automating Excel The following VBA statement clears a Range, an action that is equivalent to selecting the Range and th ...

Chapter 42: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 42 The Range object has both an Item property and a Value property. In som ...

Part VI: Automating Excel Here’s another multiline version of that procedure that uses an Else clause. Because it uses multiple ...

Chapter 42: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 42 ■ (^) Loop Until ■ Loop While The With-End With construct A construct t ...