Easiest Way to Learn Excel VBA Programming by Macro Recorder

Microsoft Excel has a Macro Recorder that lets you record workbook tasks and can help you to quickly learn macro programming. To run the Macro Recorder, click Tools>Macro>Macro Recorder from the menu. Please figure below.

Situation:
Regularly, you find yourself searching the value 1,000 in column A together with other tasks and you want a program routine to automate the search.

Solution:
1.) Run the Macro Recorder.
2.) Select the whole Column A by clicking on the A header.
3.) Press Control-F to display the Find window.
















4.) Enter 1000 in “Find what:” field and click “Find Next” button.
5.) Stop the Macro Recorder by clicking the stop button:















6.) The following source code is automatically generated by Excel:

Source Code:

There are many things that you can learn in using the Macro Recorder. You can learn the different objects that the built-in functionalities of Excel VBA programming language are using.

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Blog for MS Excel VBA Programming

This blog is all about Microsoft Excel Visual Basic for Application. Excel has been around for more than a decade and many businesses have used it as a tool to do business and financial computation. During my 5 years of Excel macro programming, I have seen companies that have problems in customizing their Excel workbooks and they came to me for consultation. This blog covers knowledge I gained during those years. My objective is to help those who are looking for ideas or sample codes to complete their programming tasks.

I am not claiming that I know everything about Excel VBA. There are still lots of things that I don’t know about it. In my future posting, if you see errors or incomplete codes, please feel free to inform and correct me.

In the future, I will include in this blog links of different VBA websites that I will find in the internet. If you already know existing links about Excel VBA, I will appreciate if you give it to me and I will include it to my list.

With the help of the readers of this blog, they will eventually find myriad of information resources and it will give quickest tricks to get them out the monotonous work of analysis and make macro programming fun and easy.

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