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Microsoft Excel 2019 VBA and Macros, 1st edition

Published by Microsoft Press (December 28, 2018) © 2019

  • Bill Jelen
  • Tracy Syrstad

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This book shows students how to make Excel do things you thought were impossible, discover macro techniques you won’t find anywhere else, and create automated reports that are amazingly powerful. Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad help students  instantly visualize information, so they can act on it… capture data from anywhere, and use it anywhere… automate Excel 2019’s best new features. Students will find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, and workbooks packed with bonus examples, macros, and solutions—straight from MrExcel!


  • The fastest, best way to go beyond the Macro Recorder and move up the Excel VBA learning curve
  • Shows how to automate powerful new Excel 2019 features for analysis, formatting, sharing, and presentation
  • Includes the best practical explanation of object-oriented programming for non-programmers ever written!
  • Co-authored by Excel legend and Microsoft MVP Bill Jelen ("MrExcel") as part of the popular MrExcel's Library series
Introduction
  1. Unleash the Power of Excel with VBA
  2. This Sounds Like BASIC, So Why Doesn't It Look Familiar?
  3. Referring to Ranges
  4. Looping and Flow Control
  5. R1C1-style Formulas
  6. Creating and manipulating Names in VBA
  7. Event Programming
  8. Arrays
  9. Creating Classes and Collections
  10. Userforms: An Introduction
  11. Data Mining with Advanced Filter
  12. Using VBA to Create Pivot Tables
  13. Excel Power
  14. Sample User-Defined Functions
  15. Creating Charts
  16. Data Visualizations and Conditional Formatting
  17. Dashboarding with Sparklines
  18. Reading from and Writing to the Web
  19. Text File Processing
  20. Automating Word
  21. Using Access as a Back End to Enhance Multiuser Access to Data
  22. Advanced Userform Techniques
  23. Windows Application Programming Interface (API)
  24. Handling Errors
  25. Customizing the Ribbon to Run Macros
  26. Creating Add-Ins
  27. An Introduction to Creating Office Add-ins
  28. What's New in Excel 2019 and What's Changed

Bill Jelen, Excel MVP and the host of MrExcel.com, has been using spreadsheets since 1985, and he launched the MrExcel.com website in 1998. Bill was a regular guest on Call for Help with Leo Laporte and has produced more than 2,200 episodes of his daily video podcast, Learn Excel from MrExcel. He is the author of 57 books about Microsoft Excel and writes the monthly Excel column for Strategic Finance magazine. Before founding MrExcel.com, Bill Jelen spent 12 years in the trenches–working as a financial analyst for finance, marketing, accounting, and operations departments of a $500 million public company. He lives in Merritt Island, Florida, with his wife, Mary Ellen.

Tracy Syrstad is a Microsoft Excel developer and author of nine Excel books. She has been helping people with Microsoft Office issues since 1997, when she discovered free online forums where anyone could ask and answer questions.  Tracy found out she enjoyed teaching others new skills, and when she began working as a developer, she was able to integrate the fun of teaching with one-on-one online desktop sharing sessions. Tracy lives on an acreage in eastern South Dakota with her husband, one dog, two cats, one horse, and a variety of wild foxes, squirrels, and rabbits.

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