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
•	Windows
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 

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