How to Automate Task in Excel
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- Post published: April 2, 2019
- Post category:Macros
Many businesses handle lots of documents and a lot of repetitive tasks each day and this may slow down the processing processes.
You can decide to automate your accounting task and all other processes in your business to make your work easier and get results in a timely manner.
Microsoft excel has a range of features which can help you with any tasks. The excel engine can handle large data sets which need to be sliced and diced in various option. One of the essential feature used to automate data is macros.
Excel allows you to import data from your database and create Macros to automate tasks and simply your work.
Using macros to automate task
Excel macros are programs created to perform repetitive task and save you a lot of typing time.
You can find macro command from the Developer tab in the menu bar. The Record Macro command button allows you to create a customized mini-macro program to handle large volumes of data. If the developer tab is not in the menu, you can add it from the file option.
How to add developer tab
- Click on File then choose option tab.
- On the excel options dialog box choose Customize Ribbon
- Under the Customize the Ribbon list box on the right side of the opened dialog box, select the Developer checkbox under Main Tabs to activate developer tab
- Click ok
Recording a macro
2. Go to developer tab, under code choose macro. You can also open macro from the view tab by clicking on the macros command button drop down list then choose record macro.
3. On the open dialog box, assign a name to your macro and click OK
4. Shortcut key
You can create a custom shortcut on how you want to open the macro. This is optional, you can create the shortcut or leave it blank.
5. Store macro in
You can also specify storage options if you want the macro to be stored in a different location and be available when you open excel.
This is done through selecting Personal Macro workbook and excel will automatically a hidden personal macro workbook.
6. Description box
The description box is optional. You can give a brief description and then click OK. Once you click OK, all the action you do on the workbook are recorded.
7. Perform excel actions
You can now start performing the excel commands or tasks you want to be recorded. Use can use various excel command to perform your task like using the Today() function, If(), Product(), or any other excel function. All the tasks performed are recorded in the macro.
8. Stop recording
Once you’re through with the tasks, go to Developer tab, under the code group, choose stop recording.
Working with recorded macros
For advanced macros, you can incorporate VBA to your macros.
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I am not a Programmer. Why should I learn Excel VBA Macros?
Firstly, you don’t need to be an Excel Guru to take this course, just average Excel skills will do. It’s adjusted for first-time users. Secondly, it will benefit you in automating your Excel VBA work. It saves time and improves efficiency.
But I have heard from colleagues that it takes a lot of time (weeks and months) to actually implement the solutions and benefit from it.
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- Record and run basic macros
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- Define Object, Properties, and Methods
- Use Range Navigation, Referencing and Variable Declaration
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Able to implement techniques at work
- Using Loops
- Optimizing Code Efficiency
- Using Event tracking
- Creating Userforms
- Recording Macro button
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- Mini Projects: Split, Protect-Unprotect, Automate Comment Extraction
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- Record and ways to Run a Macro; Viewing the code
- Understanding the VBA workspace – VB Editor, Project Explorer, Properties Window, Module etc.
- Personal Excel VBA Macro Workbook
A beginner, as well as an advanced user of VBA Macros, must know a specific trick to locate relevant Macro codes through Google search. You will learn:
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The moment you discover VBA in Excel, you will never want to do another formatting or data manipulation task in Excel. When we first discovered how to use VBA, it was like getting fed ground beef after you tasted filet mignon: you just can’t go back once you have tasted heaven. Many people think VBA is meant for programmers, and we can tell you that you don’t need to be a programmer to learn how to “code” in VBA. We are going to show actual VBA code in this post for one of the most common tasks we’ve found for using VBA: cycling through worksheets.
What you will feel like after learning the quick VBA tip in this post.
What is VBA?
Visual Basic for Applications is a programming language that allows you to do things in Microsoft applications like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint beyond the traditional user interface. You probably know where all the menus and buttons are in Excel, and hopefully you know keyboard shortcuts to get your job done even faster in Excel. There are times when you need to do repetitive, mundane, and frankly boring tasks in Excel like coloring a cell or doing the SUM() formula on some numbers. If you are doing the same tasks every single day to the same worksheets, you are probably a good candidate to implement VBA to save you from doing these repetitive tasks.
You may have heard of macros, which are the building blocks in VBA. Macros are step-by-step procedures written in Visual Basic that let you automate repetitive tasks. In order to get started with VBA, understanding the differences between objects, properties, and methods is important.
A very basic example (pardon the pun) is a basketball. The basketball is our object. A property of the basketball, our object, could be its colors. The color can be black, white, but is typically orange. In terms of the basketball’s methods, these are actions the ball can take. For instance, the ball can bounce, roll, or maybe even pop. These are all different methods the object can do. The Microsoft Developer Network actually has a pretty good primer on getting started with VBA in Excel 2010. While that’s fun and dandy to read when you’re bored, we are all about doing and experimenting so let’s get right into the VBA code for helping you automate tasks you would do on many worksheets.
Cycle Through Worksheets VBA Code
Here is the bare bones code for quickly cycling through the worksheets in your workbook to apply some sort of operation on the cells in a given worksheet:
It’s super simple and efficient. Line 9 is where you would enter in all the operations you would like to do on all the worksheets in your file. How does this simple script work?
We first need to figure out how many worksheets there are in your workbook, so we have a variable called numsheet that stores the number of worksheets in your file. application.Sheets is the object we are working on which essentially refers to the worksheets in your Excel file. Count is the method that we are applying to this object; the number returned is simply the number of worksheets.
In order to cycle through all the worksheets, we have to do a FOR/NEXT loop. This is where the For y = 1 To numsheet comes into play. The first time the loop runs, the variable y will equal 1. Therefore, Sheets(y).Select will be Sheets(1).Select the first time the loop runs. Sheets is the object and Select is the method we are applying to the Sheets object (which basically selects the current worksheet in your file).
range(“A1”).Select moves the cursor to cell A1 in each of your worksheets so that after you’re done applying operations to your worksheet, you’ll automatically be in cell A1 when you go back to that worksheet. Once the FOR/NEXT loop reaches the total number of worksheets in your file, it exits the loop and selects the first sheet (Sheets(1).Select) in case you have a lot of sheets in your file and want to be back in the first worksheet in your file.
Applying This Code To A Real File
Let’s say you have an Excel report where you need to make sure the first row is always highlighted yellow and bold since all your column headings are in the first row and you want your audience to notice those headings. Your Excel file has 10 worksheets that all have the same column headings. Of course, you could individually go to each worksheet and highlight the first row yellow and make the font bold, but this is the perfect task for our worksheet cycler code! So how do we make this:
You can download the sample file here to play around yourself, but here are the steps we would take to implement this code into a macro:
- Go to your Excel preferences and make sure the “Developer” tab is checked off so that it shows up in the Ribbon
- Click on Developer=>Editor
- Right-click on your file name in the project window and select Insert=>Module
- Copy and paste the code below in the next setion into the editor and hit Save
- Run the code by clicking on Developer=>Macros=>KeyCutsWorksheetCycler=>Run
VBA Code For Highlighting The First Row Yellow And Bold Font
In the first code sample, we left a section open for where you would enter in the operations you would want to apply to your worksheet. Here is what the code would look like for the specific case of highlighting the first row yellow and applying a bold font including the subroutine lines of code to make the macro work:
When you run the KeyCutsWorksheetCycler macro, Excel will cycle through all your worksheets and apply the yellow fill color and the bold font format. The actual “cycling” will happen so fast your eye may not catch it, but it’s indeed happening!
Apply A Bottom Border With Excel VBA
Let’s say you wanted to apply a bottom border to all the cells in the first row of every worksheet in your file. You would simply replace Lines 11 and 12 above with this code:
The final code would look like this:
Conclusion
After utilizing simple formatting macros like this, we quickly realized how much time we could save on or jobs and actually do interesting work we love. Understanding VBA is also a great skill set you can add to your resume, so take the first step in learning this simple tool and it will do wonders for your work and career!
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How do I build a macro?
Writing a Macro Make sure you know how to code in VBA. Open a Microsoft Office 365 file. Click Developer. Click Macros. Enter a macro name. Click Create. Enter your macro’s code. Once the VBA window opens, type in the code for your macro. Save your file as a macro-enabled format.
What is an example of VBA in Excel?
Excel VBA example: The Open event for a workbook. One of the most commonly used Excel VBA events is the Workbook Open event. Assume that you have a workbook that you use every day. The Workbook_Open procedure in this example is executed every time the workbook is opened. The procedure checks the day of the week; if it’s Friday.
What is macro in VBA?
Macros are what most people who write VBA code use. A macro (also can be referred to as a Procedure or Subroutine) is a grouping of code that performs a series of tasks or commands within a targeted computer program (aka Application).
What are some examples of macro in Excel?
A macro is simply a series of instructions. After you’ve created a macro, Excel will execute those instructions, step-by-step, on any data that you give it. For example, we could have a macro that tells Excel to take a number, add two, multiply by five, and return the modulus.
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Microsoft Office documents containing built-in macros can be dangerous. Macros are essentially bits of computer code, and historically they’ve been vehicles for malware. Luckily, modern versions of Office contain security features that will protect you from macros.
Macros are still potentially dangerous. But, like a lion at the zoo, you’d have to go out of your way to be hurt by them. As long as you don’t bypass the built-in security features, you shouldn’t have to worry.
What’s a Macro?
Microsoft Office documents — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other types of documents — can contain embedded code written in a programming language known as Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
You can record your own macros using the built-in Macro Recorder. This allows you to automate repetitive tasks — in the future, you’ll be able to repeat the actions you recorded by running the macro. Follow our guide to creating Excel macros for more information. Macros you’ve created yourself are fine and don’t pose a security risk.
However, malicious people could write VBA code to create macros that do harmful things. They could then embed these macros in Office documents and distribute them online.
Why Can Macros Do Potentially Dangerous Things?
You might assume that a programming language designed to automate tasks in an Office suite would be fairly harmless, but you’d be wrong. For example, macros can use the VBA SHELL command to run arbitrary commands and programs or use the VBA KILL command to delete files on your hard drive.
After a malicious macro is loaded into an Office application like Word via an infected document, it can use features like “AutoExec” to automatically start with Word or “AutoOpen” to automatically run whenever you open a document. In this way, the macro virus can integrate itself into Word, infecting future documents.
You might wonder why such harmful behavior is even possible with an Office suite. VBA macros were added to Office in the 90s, at a time when Microsoft wasn’t serious about security and before the Internet brought the threat of harmful macros home. Macros and VBA code weren’t designed for security, just like Microsoft’s ActiveX technology and many of the features in Adobe’s PDF Reader.
Macro Viruses In Action
As you might expect, malware authors took advantage of such insecurities in Microsoft Office to create malware. One of the most well-known is the Melissa virus from 1999. It was distributed as a Word document containing a macro virus. When opened with Word 97 or Word 2000, the macro would execute, gather the first 50 entries in the user’s address book, and mail a copy of the macro-infected Word document to them via Microsoft Outlook. Many recipients would open the infected document and the cycle would continue, clogging email servers with an exponentially increasing amount of junk mail.
Other macro viruses have caused trouble in other ways — for example, the Wazzu macro virus infected Word documents and tampered with them by occasionally moving words around inside the document.
These macros were much more trouble when Office trusted macros and loaded them by default. It no longer does.
How Microsoft Office Protects Against Macro Viruses
Thankfully, Microsoft eventually got serious about security. Office 2003 added a macro security level feature. By default, only macros signed with a trusted certificate could run.
Modern versions of Microsoft Office are even more restrictive. Office 2013 is set to disable all macros by default, providing a notification that the macro wasn’t allowed to run.
Since Office 2007, Macros are also much easier to detect. By default, standard Office documents are saved with the “x” suffix. For example, .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Documents with these file extensions are not allowed to contain macros. Only documents with a file extension ending with “m” — that’s .docm, .xlsm, and .pptm — are allowed to contain macros.
How to Protect Yourself
To actually be infected, you’d have to download a file containing a malicious macro and go out of your way to disable Office’s built-in security features. As a result of this, macro viruses are now much less common.
Here’s all you need to do: Only run macros from people or organizations you trust when you have a good reason to do so. Don’t disable the built-in macro security features.
Macros are like any other computer program and can be used for good or for bad. Organizations may use macros to do more powerful things with Office or you may create macros to automate repetitive tasks on your own. But, like any other computer program, you should only run macros from sources you trust.
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You just built a sweet Excel spreadsheet.
It does everything your boss wants it to do. It tracks all of those pesky [insert your company’s key data points here].
It looks really good.
I mean, you even used the company’s logo, color scheme, and everything.
There’s just one problem. It’s super hard to update.
There are 100+ columns. It takes a while to enter a new row for each contract, sale, piece of equipment, service performed, or whatever else your company tracks religiously.
All that scrolling left and right to enter one row of data… it’s just too much.
Half the battle is typically knowing what can be accomplished, not how.
Do you think Steve Jobs knew how he was going to create a brand new industry when the iPhone idea was pitched to him?
I highly doubt it.
What he did know was that touchscreen technology existed. He knew that mobile internet access was possible. He also knew that he had an army of software engineers at his disposal.
The point here is this; know what’s possible and then worry about how to execute. The same goes for your Excel spreadsheet or automation (VBA macros) project.
Keep this in mind; anything you do in Excel can be automated for the most part. Here’s a short list of examples of what you can automate within Microsoft Office.
- Cleaning up an export file; rearranging columns, deleting rows/columns, etc.
- Importing data. This includes opening a file, copying data, pasting into a different file/tab, and then closing the original file.
- Clearing a form.
- Parsing data. Maybe you get a report where all of the names/addresses are in one cell. This can be automatically separated into multiple columns.
- Extracting data from an automated email you receive. (Yes, even in Outlook.)
- Updating data, text, and/or charts in a PowerPoint presentation right from Excel .
- Scraping data from the internet and inputting into an Excel database.
- Sending weekly individual reports (like commission statements, performance reports, managerial KPI’s, etc.) out in a matter of a few seconds.
Bottom line, you may have graduated in 1999, but your spreadsheets don’t have to look and operate like they are.
