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VBA Automation for Excel 2019 Cookbook

By : Mike Van Niekerk
Book Image

VBA Automation for Excel 2019 Cookbook

By: Mike Van Niekerk

Overview of this book

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming language developed by Microsoft to automate tasks in MS Office applications. This book will help you to focus on the essential aspects of your role by automating mundane tasks in Excel and other Office applications. With comprehensive coverage of VBA delivered in the form of practice problems and bite-sized recipes, this book will help you to hit the ground running. Unlike most books that assume prior programming experience, this book starts with the fundamentals and gradually progresses to solving bigger problems. You’ll start by becoming familiar with VBA so that you can start recording macros right away. With this foundation in place, you’ll advance to using the full capabilities of the language as you apply loops, functions, and custom dialog boxes to design your own automation programs. You'll also get to grips with embedded macros and other advanced tools to enhance productivity and explore topics relating to app performance and security. Throughout this VBA book, you’ll cover multiple practice projects in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint while exploring tips and best practices to hone your skills. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to use VBA to create your own programs that control MS Office applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Objects as a collection, and changing the attributes of the entire collection

This recipe will take us one step further down the path of discovering objects.

It is common knowledge that a workbook is made up of any number of worksheets. These worksheet objects are of the same type and form a collection. Collections are objects in themselves.

There are, of course, more objects that form collections than just worksheets. Here is a list of other commonly used workbook objects:

  • Workbooks: All currently open workbook objects form a collection.
  • Worksheets: All worksheet objects contained in a particular workbook object constitute another collection.
  • Charts: All chart objects/chart sheets contained in a particular workbook object are yet another collection.
  • Sheets: All sheets, regardless of type, contained in a particular workbook object also form a collection.

Having this understanding of collections will be useful for all future recipes.

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