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VBA Automation for Excel 2019 Cookbook

By : Mike Van Niekerk
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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)

Loading the form

Every time we wanted to use the form so far, we had to run it from the VBA Editor. This is not ideal for users, you might agree. We need some way of making the form available from within the spreadsheet itself. The most effective way of achieving that is to create a button in the spreadsheet, which will launch the dialog box.

In this recipe, we will be loading a form.

Getting ready

Make sure that Controls.xlsm is still open. New Record Entry Form should be visible, and both the Project window and the Properties window should be visible on the left of the VBA Editor.

How to do it…

We need to do the following:

  1. Switch back to Excel and make sure that Sheet1 is active. Click on Developer | Controls | Insert | ActiveX Controls | Command Button:

    Figure 15.4 – Inserting a command button in the spreadsheet

  2. Click to the right of the table to insert a command button of default size. Instead of returning to the VBA Editor to edit its properties...