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Introduction to VBA: Leveraging the Power of MS Excel

OSUINFORMS 2015 Tutorial Series

Sayak Roychowdhury

PhD Student, ISE

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• Why use VBA?

• VBA Environment

• Declaration, Read, Write

• Data Types

• Fuctions

• GUI

• Record Macros • https://www.informs.org/Community/OSU-INFORMS

Outline

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• Comes with MS Excel, used almost everywhere

• Easy on syntax

• Read and Write data on excel sheets

• Can use built-in functions made for Excel, e.g. MAX,MIN, MINVERSE

Why use VBA

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VBA Environment

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VBA Environment

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VBA Environment

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Project Pane

Property Pane

Editor

Run Buttons

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VBA Environment

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WorkSheet Names

WorkSheet Properties

Module Names

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Declaration, Read, Write Begin Subroutine

Declare Variables

Read from WorkSheet

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Declaration, Read, Write Select/Clear

Write to Worksheet

Write to Worksheet (with loop)

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• Short,Integer, Long • Single, Double • Char • Date • Boolean • Object • Variant (can contain any type, except string)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/47zceaw7.aspx

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Data Types

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Functions and Function Call

User-defined Function

Function Call

Excel Function Call (Generate normal random number)

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GUI Developer Tab

Assign Macro to command button

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• Developer Tab -> Click Record Macro ->Give Name of the Macro-> Do the task-> Stop Recording

• Macro is saved in the module

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Record Macro

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