In this initial section, learners will discover how to record macros using the Macro Recorder, enabling them to automate repetitive tasks in Excel.

Participants will learn to navigate the Visual Basic Editor, understanding the Project window, the Code window, and the Properties window, enabling more effective management of their VBA code.

This part will cover the fundamentals of the VBA language structure, including variables and constants, variable declarations, different types of variables, procedures and functions, parameter passing, calling a procedure or function, executing a macro, step-by-step mode, and breakpoints to facilitate debugging.

Learners will acquire the skills to manipulate basic objects, focusing on selecting a range, resizing a selection, counting rows and columns in a range, and manipulating cell formatting to automate complex data manipulation tasks.

This section will concentrate on manipulating sheets in Excel, covering topics such as selecting a sheet, adding, deleting, moving, and copying sheets, renaming sheets, and counting sheets in a workbook for more efficient data management.

Participants will learn to manage workbooks, focusing on topics such as opening, creating, closing, and saving workbooks for effective data and VBA project management.

This part will cover conditional structures such as ‘If… Else…’ and ‘Select Case… End Select’ to enable learners to make decisions based on different conditions. Additionally, loops such as ‘Do… Loop Until,’ ‘For…Next,’ and ‘For Each’ will also be covered to automate repetitive tasks in Excel.

Learners will discover how to communicate effectively with the user using features such as the Msgbox function to display messages, Excel’s built-in dialog boxes to collect specific information, prompting for the name of a file or folder, and creating ‘Userform’ forms for more advanced interaction with the user.