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Excel VBA Workshop I: Get Started

Written by Jun Zhao | Mar 14, 2014 1:52:51 PM

NYC Data Science Academy is offering a relative courses:

RSVP Data Skills with Excel, Intermediate Level

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Meetup Announcement:

Speaker: David Romoff. David has worked with Excel and VBA intensely for about 2 years.  "While I am not a Professional Excel Developer, I have seen how it used for reporting and analytics at large firms and I'm hoping to share some underlying concepts here."

Outline:

Quick tour of keyboard shortcuts, Named ranges, Named ranges as related to data control and calculations, Array calculations, Vlookup and match Data tables. Macros and Buttons and user interface ideas. A fun Macro Example. Plus VBA Concepts such as  Variable Declaration, Reading Ranges, Controlling Alerts,FunctionsR and Excel Interface Pivot Tables and Charts.

It was a hands-on workshop intended to introduce concepts for working with Excel and VBA. In general, a topic was introduced for about 5 minutes and then people could practice on a sample workbook for about 5 minutes; and then all would repeat.

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Other Useful Info Link:

If you want to try, the original file could be downloaded here: https://slides.nycdatascience.com/excel/Excel%20VBA%20Workshop.xlsm