VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel

Introduction

IN THIS INTRODUCTION

Getting Results with VBA

What Is in This Book

A Brief History of Spreadsheets and Macros

The Future of VBA and Excel

Special Elements and Typographical Conventions

Next Steps

Getting Results with VBA

As the macro language for Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic for Applications enables you to achieve tremendous efficiencies in your day-to-day use of Excel.

As corporate IT departments have found themselves with long backlogs of requests, Excel users have found that they can produce the reports needed to run their business themselves. This is both a good and bad thing. On the good side, without waiting for resources from IT, you've probably been able to figure out how to import data and produce reports ...