

When you have followed the standard installation of Excel, for both Windows and Mac versions. Three things you should check before starting the tutorial:įirstly, you need to have Visual Basic for Excel installed on your computer.

This tutorial is especially aimed at those with good knowledge of Excel who can substantially upgrade their work with only a bit of VBA knowledge. In case you do not know Excel at all, it is probably better to first explore the already extensive possibilities that Excel offers without the use of VBA. As long as you are reasonably familiar with Excel then it should be easy to follow the instructions of the tutorial to move around Excel. The only knowledge assumed necessary to follow this tutorial is the normal use of Excel. As it is a version of Visual Basic specific for Excel there are many pre-defined parts and pieces available for quick and easy programming. Though at first sight the VBA editing window is less straightforward than the standard worksheet Excel user-interface, in comparison it offers a nearly unlimited level of flexibility and much greater calculation power.

This chapter provides a high-level description of: Introduction: How to get started Goal of this chapter
