Programming and Data Wrangling with VBA and Excel®

Master the art of programming and data manipulation with our VBA and Excel course, designed for professionals aiming to automate and streamline complex tasks within Microsoft Excel, enhancing efficiency and productivity.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Design efficient VBA scripts to automate Excel tasks.

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Implement custom worksheet functions for advanced data manipulation.

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Understand error handling and performance optimization in VBA.

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Deploy and share VBA solutions across different platforms.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 3 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Excel Power Users
  • Data Analysts
  • Financial Modelers
  • IT Professionals

Description

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) enables you to enhance and extend the capabilities of Microsoft® Excel® and other applications in the Microsoft® Office application suite. Regardless of the Excel version (e.g. Excel 2013, Excel 2016, Excel 2019), you can use VBA to perform tasks that would be difficult or impossible to do using only worksheet functions, and you can automate a wide range of tasks involving the collection, processing, analysis, and visualization of data. This course will give you a good foundation for understanding, creating, and using VBA in your own Excel workbooks, show you how to work with data across different applications, and how to package the macros and functions you create so you can back them up, move them to other computers, and share them with other users.

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Upcoming Course Dates

August 19-21, 2025

9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

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$1050

October 29-31, 2025

9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

Enroll

$1050

Course Outline

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Lesson 1: Using VBA to Solve Business Problems

  1. Use Macros to Automate Tasks in Excel

  2. Identify Components of Macro-Enabled Workbooks

  3. Configure the Excel VBA Environment

Lesson 2: Automating Repetitive Tasks

  1. Use the Macro Recorder to Create a VBA Macro

  2. Record a Macro with Relative Addressing

  3. Delete Macros and Modules

  4. Identify Strategies for Using the Macro Recorder

Lesson 3: Getting Help on VBA

  1. Use VBA Help

  2. Use the Object Browser to Discover Objects You Can Use in VBA

  3. Use the Immediate Window to Explore Object Properties and Methods

Lesson 4: Creating Custom Worksheet Functions

  1. Create a Custom Function

  2. Make Decisions in Code

  3. Work with Variables

  4. Perform Repetitive Tasks

Lesson 5: Improving Your VBA Code

  1. Debug VBA Errors

  2. Deal with Errors

  3. Improve Macro Performance

Lesson 6: Controlling How and When Macros Run

  1. Prompt the User for Information

  2. Configure Macros to Run Automatically

Lesson 7: Developing Custom Forms

  1. Display a Custom Dialog Box

  2. Program Form Events

Lesson 8: Using VBA to Work with Files

  1. Use VBA to Get File and Directory Structure

  2. Use VBA to Read Text Files

  3. Use VBA to Write Text Files

Lesson 9: Using VBA to Clean and Transform Data

  1. Automate Power Query

  2. Transform Data Using VBA and Workbook Functions

  3. Use Regular Expressions

  4. Manage Errors in Data

Lesson 10: Extending the Programming Environment Beyond the Workbook

  1. Run Other Programs and Commands

  2. Share Your VBA Projects

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