Microsoft® Office Excel 2003: Introduction to VBA
Course Specifications
Course number: 084263
Software: Excel
Course length: 1.0 day
Course Description
In the previous Excel courses, you used Excel to simplify business tasks,
including the creation of spreadsheets, graphs, charts, and formulas that
were difficult to create and nearly impossible to maintain using pencil and
paper. You now want to simplify your work in the Excel environment by automating
many of the repetitive tasks that are part of spreadsheet development. In Excel
2003: Introduction to VBA you apply the Visual Basic for Applications
(VBA) programming language to simplify many of the tasks you learned in Excel
2003: Level 1 and Excel 2003: Level 2.
Course Objective: You will use VBA to create macros for automating repetitive tasks
in Excel 2003.
Target Student: Students looking to gain the skills necessary to apply VBA to develop
macros, format worksheets, create user-interactive macros, work with multiple
worksheets, and perform calculations. In addition, students who already have
knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and
print worksheets that include charts and sorted and filtered data.
Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the Excel
2003: Level 2 Element K course or have equivalent knowledge.
Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Hardware Requirements
For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one
for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware
components:
- A 233 MHz Pentium-class processor if you use Windows XP Professional
as your operating system (300 MHz is recommended).
- A 133 MHz Pentium-class processor if you use Windows 2000
Professional as your operating system.
- 128 MB of RAM.
- A 5 GB hard disk or larger if you use Windows XP Professional
as your operating system. You should have at least 600 MB free hard-disk space
available for the Office installation
- A 3 GB hard disk or larger if you use Windows 2000 Professional
as your operating system. You should have at least 600 MB free hard-disk space
available for the Office installation.
- A CD-ROM and floppy-disk drive.
- A mouse or other pointing device.
- An 800 x 600 resolution monitor.
- Network cards and cabling for local network access.
- Internet access (see your local network administrator).
- A printer (optional).
- A projection system to display the instructor's computer screen.
Platform Requirements
Software Requirements
- Either Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1, or Windows
2000 Professional with Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Enterprise Edition
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Develop macros.
- Format worksheets.
- Create an interactive worksheet.
- Work with multiple worksheets.
- Perform calculations.
Course Content
- Lesson 1: Developing Macros
- Topic 1A: Create
a Macro with the Macro Recorder
- Topic 1B: Edit
a Macro
- Topic 1C: Debug
a Macro
- Topic 1D: Customize
Toolbars, Menus, and Hotkeys
- Lesson 2: Formatting Worksheets
- Topic 2A: Sort
Data
- Topic 2B: Insert
Rows and Columns
- Topic 2C: Insert
Text
- Topic 2D: Format
Text
- Topic 2E: Duplicate
Data
- Topic 2F: Generate
a Report
- Lesson 3: Creating an Interactive Worksheet
- Topic 3A: Determine
Dialog Box Type
- Topic 3B: Capture
User Input
- Lesson 4: Working with Multiple Worksheets
- Topic 4A: Insert,
Copy, and Delete Worksheets
- Topic 4B: Rename
Worksheets
- Topic 4C: Modify
the Order of Worksheets
- Topic 4D: Print
Worksheets
- Lesson 5: Performing Calculations
- Topic 5A: Create
User-defined Functions
- Topic 5B: Automate
SUM Functions
- Appendix A: Microsoft Office Specialist Program