Showing posts with label Excel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Excel. Show all posts

Saturday, March 15, 2008

How can I learn EXCEL Programming easily, quickly and effectively?

You can learn EXCEL Programming very easily!
Believe me it is a child play!!
Yet the result will be an Expert Solution!!!

If you know EXCEL operations very well, you can code for the same. For example, you may wish to subtotal the EMP records based on DEPT. (Refer my previous Blog Post for programmatically fetching data from ORACLE to EXCEL Worksheet).

You know using DATA / SUBTOTAL menu. If you want to do the same from a EXCEL VBA macro, then You need not learn EXCEL VBA language. Here is the shortcut.

Procedure
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  • Start recording macro. (TOOLS / MACRO / RECORD NEW MACRO)
  • Now you can start working as usual. In this case you find the subtotal of the EMP records based on DEPT.
  • Stop recording macro (TOOLS / MACROS / STOP RECORDING)
  • Now Start VBE (Visual Basic Editor) (TOOLS / MACROS / Visual Basic Editor)
  • In the Project Explorer, Expand the Modules. You can see 'Module1'. Open the 'Module1' by double clicking it.
  • VOILA!!! You can see the code for finding subtotal.
  • COPY, PASTE and CUSTOMIZE

If you ask me what is EXCEL-VBA programming!!!

for a NOVICE Programmers

RECORD, COPY, PASTE and CUSTOMIZE

For Advanced Programmers

Will tell in the subsequent posts. Keep visiting my Blog.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

What can you do using MS-EXCEL?

Literally You can use MS-EXCEL for anything...

* Worksheet
* Word processing
* Presentation
* Front End Tool for popular RDBMS
....

and You too can add one more item to this list...

Here is the list for Advanced / Specialised applications

* Business Intelligence Tool
* What-If Analysis Tool
* Real Time Calculations for Production Specialists
* Statistical Analysis Tool
* Charting Tool

and more.