Excel 2016 VBA and Macros

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Features

• 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 2016 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

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Description

• Copyright 2016
• Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
• Pages: 608
• Edition: 1st

• Book
• ISBN-10: 0-7897-5585-8
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-5585-8

MASTER CORE EXCEL 2016 TOOLS FOR BUILDING POWERFUL, RELIABLE SPREADSHEETS!

Use this guide to automate virtually any routine task: save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks! 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 you  instantly visualize information, so you can act on it… capture data from anywhere, and use it anywhere… automate Excel 2016’s best new features. You’ll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, and 50 workbooks packed with bonus examples, macros, and solutions–straight from MrExcel!

• Get started fast with Excel macro development
• Work efficiently with ranges, cells, and formulas
• Build super-fast applications with arrays
• Automate Excel’s new pivot table enhancements
• Collect user data with custom dialogs
• Make your macros more reliable and resilient
• Pull data from the Internet with web queries
• Use advanced classes, collections, and custom functions
• Build sophisticated business analysis solutions
• Read and write to Access or SQL Server databases
• Control other Office programs, and Windows itself
• Write code that also works on older Excel versions
• Start writing Office Store-style Excel Apps

About MrExcel Library

Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will

• Dramatically increase your productivity–saving you 50 hours a year or more
• Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems
• Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have
• Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make

This book is part of Que’s Content Update Program. As Microsoft updates features of Excel, sections of this book will be updated or new sections will be added to match the updates to the software. See inside for details.

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The Next Step Beyond the Macro Recorder in VBA Programming

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Sample Content

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Excel 2016 VBA and Macros: Referring to Ranges

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Table of Contents

Introduction ....................................................................................1

    What Is in This Book? ................................................................1

        Reducing the Learning Curve ......................................1

        Excel VBA Power .................................................................2

        Techie Stuff Needed to Produce Applications ......................................................................................2

        Does This Book Teach Excel? ........................................2

    The Future of VBA and Windows Versions of Excel .....................................................................................4

        Versions of Excel .................................................................4

        Differences for Mac Users ..............................................4

    Special Elements and Typographical Conventions ......................................................................................5

    Code Files .........................................................................................5

    Next Steps ........................................................................................5

1 Unleashing the Power of Excel with VBA .................................................................................7

    The Power of Excel ......................................................................7

    Barriers to Entry ...........................................................................7

        The Macro Recorder Doesn’t Work! .........................7

        No One on the Excel Team Is Focused on the Macro Recorder ..................................................8

        Visual Basic Is Not Like BASIC......................................8

        Good News: Climbing the Learning Curve Is Easy .............................................................................9

        Great News: Excel with VBA Is Worth the Effort .................................................................................9

    Knowing Your Tools: The Developer Tab .........................9

    Understanding Which File Types Allow Macros .........................................................................................10

    Macro Security ...........................................................................12

        Adding a Trusted Location .........................................12

        Using Macro Settings to Enable Macros in Workbooks Outside Trusted Locations ..................................................13

        Using D

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Updates

Updates & Corrections

This book is part of Que's Content Update Program. As Microsoft updates features of Office 2016, sections of this book will be updated or new sections will be added to match the updates to the software. The updates will be delivered to you via a free Web Edition of this book, which can be accessed with any Internet connection from your account on quepublishing.com. For more information, visit quepublishing.com/CUP.

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