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VBA in Excel: Walter Milner

This document discusses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in Excel. It provides an introduction to VBA and its advantages over formulas and macros. It then demonstrates how to add buttons, write code for buttons, refer to cells in code, and interact with Excel objects and collections using VBA. Examples are provided for properties of the Application object, methods of Application, iterating through the Worksheets collection, and using the RangeSelection property.

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117 views17 pages

VBA in Excel: Walter Milner

This document discusses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in Excel. It provides an introduction to VBA and its advantages over formulas and macros. It then demonstrates how to add buttons, write code for buttons, refer to cells in code, and interact with Excel objects and collections using VBA. Examples are provided for properties of the Application object, methods of Application, iterating through the Worksheets collection, and using the RangeSelection property.

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VBA in Excel

Walter Milner

Sep-05 Slide:1
VBA in Excel
Introduction
• VBA = Visual Basic for Applications
• Enables end-user programming
• In MS Office applications
• Formulae and macros OK for simple actions, but..
• Advantages over formulae and macros:
– Multiple nested if is easy
– Loops easy
– Debugging easy

Sep-05 Slide:2
VBA in Excel
Getting started
View..Toolbars..Control

Sep-05 Slide:3
VBA in Excel
Add a button

Click the button button


Drag on sheet to create one

Sep-05 Slide:4
VBA in Excel
Format it

Right click on button


Select properties
Set as required
Note distinction between name and caption

Sep-05 Slide:5
VBA in Excel
Program it

Right click button


Select View code:

Sep-05 Slide:6
VBA in Excel
Test it

On Control Toolbox, click set square


This toggles run/design
Click the button

Sep-05 Slide:7
VBA in Excel
Referring to cells

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()


Dim x As Integer
Dim y As Integer
Dim z As Integer
Dim result As Integer
x = Cells(1, 2).Value
y = Cells(2, 2).Value
z = Cells(3, 2).Value
result = x * y + z
Cells(4, 2).Value = result
End Sub

Sep-05 Slide:8
VBA in Excel
The VBA Excel Object model
• Hierarchy of classes
• Use to refer to things in
an Excel application
• Very large number of
classes, properties and
methods
• Have to use on-screen
help for reference

Sep-05 Slide:9
VBA in Excel
The VBA Excel Object model
• Object is a thing
• Property is some
property of an object
• Method is something
the object can be told
to do
• Event is something
that can happen to the
object
• Collection is a set of
related objects
• Enumeration is action
returning complete set
of things (eg all fonts
on system)

Sep-05 Slide:10
VBA in Excel
Example object - Application

Sep-05 Slide:11
VBA in Excel
Example properties of Application

Program a button which sets a


value for this property and see what
happens

Try it in a loop for a bizarre effect

Sep-05 Slide:12
VBA in Excel
Example method

Program a button which calls the


findfile method of the application

Sep-05 Slide:13
VBA in Excel
Example collection -

Display the count property of the


worksheets collection in a msgbox
to show how many sheets there are
in the workbook

Sep-05 Slide:14
VBA in Excel
Using For Each .. Next in a collection

Private Sub CommandButton4_Click()


Dim w As Worksheet
For Each w In Application.Worksheets
MsgBox (w.Name)
Next
End Sub

Sep-05 Slide:15
VBA in Excel
The RangeSelection property of the ActiveWindow

This is a Range object


So it has the properties of a Range object
Use them to program a button which displays the total
of the numbers in the cells selected

Sep-05 Slide:16
VBA in Excel
2d array exercise

Use the RangeSelection property to program a


button which does a vertical flip of selected cells

Sep-05 Slide:17
VBA in Excel

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