Simon Sez IT – Macros and VBA for Beginners

Automate Excel Using Macros and VBA
Macros and VBA for Beginners – Short Course
Simon Sez IT – Macros and VBA for Beginners

In this short course, we teach you how to create your first Macros and edit them using the Excel programming language, VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).
We by giving an overview of Marcos. After that, we move on to some VBA basics and how to edit and debug Macros. Finally, we look at creating a Macro from scratch using VBA and how to create a custom Macro ribbon.
This course includes follow-along instructor files so you can immediately practice what you learn. This is an advanced level Excel course, an intermediate knowledge of Excel is required to get the most from this course.
In this course you will learn:

Examples of Excel Macros
What is VBA?
How to record your first macro
How to record a macro using relative references
How to record a complex, multi-step macro and assign it to a button
How to set up the VBA Editor
All about VBA Code
How to edit Macros in the VBA Editor
How to fix issues with macros using debugging tools
How to write your own macro from scratch
How to create a custom Macro ribbon and add all the Macros you’ve created

Course Format

This is a video-led course. You can preview some videos below.
This course includes practice exercises.
This course is aimed at PC Excel users.

Why Trust Us?
Stream Skill is part of the Simon Sez IT family and has been in business 10+ years and taught over 500,000 students in that time. We’ve created over 100 software training courses, 5,000+ video tutorials, and we’ve helped thousands of people across the world learn how to use Microsoft Office. We’ve now created Microsoft Excel courses for the last five versions and continue to help people get to grips with this essential tool.

Course Curriculum

Section 1: Introduction

Introduction (1:39)
Using Macros to Automate Repetitive Tasks (8:20)
VBA Explained (7:32)
Course Files

Section 2: Creating Macros

Recording, Saving and Running a Macro (10:47)
Recording a Macro with Relative Referencing (7:41)
Complex Macros (11:41)
Recording a Macro to Sort and Filter Data (10:58)
Protecting cells with a Macro (8:15)

Section 3: Editing Macros with VBA

The VBA Editor (7:41)
Understanding VBA Code (13:10)
Editing Macros (8:58)
Debugging Macros (9:45)
Creating a Macro from Scratch (6:33)

Section 4: Custom Macro Ribbon

Creating a Macro Custom Ribbon (6:08)

Section 5: Course Close

Course Close (1:27)
Course Quiz and Certificate of Completion