This course will be useful to anyone who wants to gain the skills necessary to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to automate tasks in Excel such as collecting data from external sources, cleaning, and manipulating data. You will begin by identifying components of macro-enabled workbooks and configuring the Excel VBA environment. You'll also automate repetitive tasks by using the macro recorder, recording a macro with relative addressing, deleting macros and modules, and identifying strategies for using the macro recorded. Then, you'll use VBA help, use the object browser, and use the immediate window to explore object properties and methods.
Excel VBA Macros: Automating Tasks
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Excel VBA Macros: Automating Tasks
This course is part of Programming and Data Wrangling with VBA and Excel Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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In this course, you will identify VBA components, record VBA macros, and use reference tools built into Excel to assist in VBA programming.
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January 2026
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There are 4 modules in this course
When used appropriately, VBA is a powerful tool that can help you solve a wide array of business problems.
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You've run macros that automate repetitive tasks in Microsoft® Excel®. Now you will create your own macros by using Excel's macro recorder.
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In the Microsoft® Excel® VBA programming environment, you'll find that often you know what you want to do, but you just don't know what objects are provided to get the job done, or how they work. The sheer volume of objects, properties, and methods in VBA means that you may never memorize all their names and syntax, but fortunately you don't have to. VBA includes a variety of tools that provide help as you need it.
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5 plugins
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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