Excel Programming - Importance of VBA

VBA Termed as Visual Basic Application which is implemented by Microsoft event –driven programming language visual basic 6 and associated by integrated development environment, which are mostly built in Microsoft office applications. Microsoft is a well known company, run by the world famous richest man. It is the tool for developer that they use to develop programs that controls excel. We can take it in very simple words like we all need a language to speak so we can communicate properly like that excel also have its own language which is called VBA (visual basic applications), and we all know that there are a lot of activities at home or office which can be done with the help of MS Excel.

1.       Creating list of employees data

2.       Creating list of students grades

3.       Official working report

4.       Creating charts from databases

5.       Creating forms and invoices

6.       Budgeting, analyzing scientific data and many more activities.

When you give instructions to excel in this language excel simply show you result according to your instructions. Now we have to understand what is MACRO? Macro is a set of instructions in this VBA Language. If you’re not skilled in Excel Programming you would need an efficient Excel consultant to make a customize solution for your business. 

We can see here some important uses of macros here:

1.       Frequent Performance - suppose your boss says to make month-end sales report then you can develop a program in excel. You can show your frequent performance and quality work report with the help of VBA.

2.       Repetitive work and custom command : if u have to perform same or repeat action in excel then use macros you can do repetitive work in a single command and you also can customize your command .with the help of macro, you can combines these command into single command.

3.       Create custom toolbar- Use macros and make your custom toolbar with your own buttons in excel. Your boss will be impressed and you can get promoted.

4.       You can develop new worksheet functions.

5.       With the help of macros you can draw objects or graphs. But you must learn VBA coding to interact with excel’s charting and drawing tools. You can change line weights, size of an object and rescale an area.

6.       Can be used for “heavy duty “calculations. There are a number of functions. We can use a term “module” here. Module may consist of a single function or subroutine or multiple programs written by the user.

So you can see there are a number of uses of VBA. It’s a useful skill set for you. You can learn VBA in a good institute near to your area or you can search on internet. You can find there a Hugh list of institutes providing VBA training you can choose institute there according to your choice. And on internet you can read about VBA Programming we can get idea about it and surely you will relies its importance and u will get updated on time with this skill. Or you can hire Excel Consultants to make custom solutions for your business using Excel, VBA and Macros.

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