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Macros in Microsoft Excel and Word

Macros in Microsoft Excel and Word. Demo training by Ferenc Nagy. What are the Macros?. Recorded repetitive user actions multistep tasks on documents tedious mcjobs must be exactly reproduced. Why We Use Them?. Save our mind to make important decisions

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Macros in Microsoft Excel and Word

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  1. Macros in Microsoft Excel and Word Demo training by Ferenc Nagy

  2. What are the Macros? • Recorded • repetitive user actions • multistep tasks on documents • tedious mcjobs • must be exactly reproduced

  3. Why We Use Them? • Save our mind to make important decisions • Help the work of our less experienced colleagues • Standardize the look and feel of our reports • Be sure that all necessary steps will be done

  4. Planning Recording Starting Cleaning Debugging Saving Loading Exec Button Actions  Keystrokes Tools  Macros  New  Start  VB Editor  VBE  Debug  VBE  File  Export  VBE  File  Import View  Toolbars  … Step of Macro Writing and Usage

  5. Recording Macros • Tools  Macros  New • Properties • name • hotkey • Place • current document • global • description • Press keys, enter data, click with mouse • Suspend, resume, finish

  6. Methods for Starting Macros • Tools  Macros  Start • Press hotkey on property screen • Press button on toolbar

  7. Cleaning of Visual Basic Text • Tools  Macros  VB Editor • What is recorded? • Not mouse clicks but property changes of VB objects. • Discard: • accidental detours • properties not intended to change Why?

  8. Debugging Macros •  VBE  Debug • Stepwise execution • Inspect values of variables • Topic of advanced courses

  9. Saving and Loading Macros • Tools  Macros  VB EditorFile  Export • Save macro as .bas or .cls files for future usage • Tools  Macros  VB EditorFile  Import • Load macro as .bas or .cls file to use in another documents

  10. Definition of an Exec Button • Look for a bitmap or plan a new one • Create a new toolbar for your macros • Place the bitmap and the help text there

  11. Examples • Plain data files  Excel worksheets • Fixedcolumn width checked by validation • Colums delimited by commas and parentheses • Format and print Word documents • Insert headers, footers, page numbers • Change font size and page orientation • Search and replace • given words or punctuation marks • ugly accented characters like ôôõÔÕûÛ ôôõÔÕûÛ to nice HungarianőŐűŰ characters

  12. Record a Word macro Replacing all „is” with „is not” Paint all „.”-s to red. Define header: „In the name of Allah the compassionate and merciful.” Record an Excel Macro Opening a text file Create columns at commas , Delete all parentheses () Insert a heading in the first row Practice

  13. Thank you for the attention. • It’s your turn to learn and use what you have learnt.

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