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By Andrew Gould
www.wiseowl.co.uk - The Scripting Runtime Object Library allows you to write VBA code to create, open, read from and write to text files using very simple methods. This video teaches you how to work with tab-delimited and comma-separated value files including how to create them, append data to them and how to read from them. The video also includes a section on using text functions for parsing the contents of a text file and the final section talks about combining these techniques with workbook events to create a simple change log.
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Course Index
- Getting Started in the VB Editor
- Writing Your First VBA Macro
- What to do When Things Go Wrong (Errors and Debugging)
- Buttons, Toolbars and Keyboard Shortcuts
- Selecting Cells (Range, Cells, Activecell, End, Offset)
- Worksheets, Charts and Sheets
- Workbooks
- Variables
- Object Variables
- Message Boxes
- Input Boxes
- Application.InputBox
- With Statements
- If Statements
- Select Case Statements
- Do Until and Do While Loops
- Find and FindNext
- For Next Loops
- For Each Loops
- Creating Functions
- Error Handling (On Error, Resume, GoTo)
- Event Procedures
- Application Events
- User Forms
- Files and Folders (FileSystemObjects)
- Text Files (FileSystemObjects)
- File Dialogs
- Arrays
- Constants and Enumerations (Const, Enum)
- Creating Word Documents
- Creating and Updating Linked Word Tables
- Creating PowerPoint Presentations
- Creating Outlook Emails
- ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) Querying a Database
- ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) Modifying Data with Recordsets
- ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) SQL Statements (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE)
- Creating Add Ins
- Type Declarations (UserDefined Types)
- Class Modules
- Using Class Modules in Other Projects
- Custom Collections
- Typed Collections
- Dictionaries
- Disabling Screen Updates
- Saving as a PDF
- Data Labels in Scatter Charts
- ByRef and ByVal
- ByRef and ByVal (When to use Parentheses)
- Making Excel Talk
- Finding the Last Used Row, Column and Cell
- Querying Web Pages using Query Tables
- Browsing to Websites and Scraping a Web Page
- Web Scraping Across Multiple Pages
- Downloading Files from Websites
- Introduction to Charts in VBA
- Embedding Charts in Worksheets
- Introduction to Pivot Tables in VBA
- Pivot Tables using an Access Database
- Pivot Tables using a SQL Server Database
- Pivot Tables and Consolidation Ranges
- PowerPivot Data Models
- Pivot Charts
- Pivot Table Slicers
- Pivot Table Date Fields and Timelines
- Introduction to Shapes
- Formatting Shapes
- Adding Text to Shapes
- Working with Strings
- Splitting Strings
- The Join Function and Concatenating Strings
- Replacing Strings
- Converting the Case of Text
- The Asc and Chr Functions
- The IIf Function
- The Switch Function
- Working with Dates
Course Description
Excel VBA is a powerful (and fun!) tool which allows you to automate your Excel workbooks. These videos will help you through your first steps on the way to becoming a programmer in Excel. You don't need any prior programming knowledge as we'll take things from first principles and hopefully give you a flavour of the cool things you can do with a little bit of effort!