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Type: Engineers and Scientists

Platform: Windows

Versions: 97-2007

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Workshop and Manual Overview

This Microsoft Excel VBA 2-day "hands-on" workshop for engineers and scientists shows how to develop VBA functions for use in Excel VBA and on the Excel worksheet. When VBA functions are designed to be used on the worksheet they are called User Defined Functions or UDF's. Covered are all the essentials for Excel VBA function design including:

• Excel VBA functions syntax
• Excel VBA function argument design
• How to return multiple values (arrays) from VBA functions
• How to use Microsoft Excel's built-in worksheet functions in your VBA functions
• How to create a custom worksheet function (UDF) that runs from your worksheet formulas
• How to create a custom worksheet function (User Defined Function) that uses worksheet ranges like the Sum, VLookup, CountIF worksheet function
• How to create function libraries for a rapid analysis environment
• How to use Excel VBA functions to construct engineering and scientific system models

Why Create VBA Functions?

Microsoft Excel VBA allows an engineer or scientist to make their own custom VBA functions or custom worksheet function called User Defined Functions or UDF's. The ability to make these functions allows a user to perform complex calculations or run numerical analysis routines in a single worksheet cell. These functions can be used over and over again not only in VBA but also on the worksheet avoiding the dreaded mega formula and mistyping of formulas. VBA functions can also be packaged into libraries and distributed. This allows standardized rapid analysis environments to be developed cheaply in Microsoft Excel. These functions can even communicate with databases, other computer languages and other applications like MS Word.

Workshop Topics

Day-1

• Benefits of using Excel VBA functions and UDF's for engineering and science
• How to use the VBA function statement in your code
• How to create an argument list for a VBA function
• General design rules for the inner workings of a VBA function and UDF
• How to run a UDF from a worksheet formula
• How to run a VBA function from other VBA procedures
• How to use Microsoft Excel worksheet ranges in your UDF's
• How to return single and multiple values from VBA functions
• How to use VBA and Microsoft Excel Worksheet functions in your VBA functions

Day-2

• Using numerical analysis in your VBA functions
• Using the worksheet and VBA functions to create system models
• Overview of Add-Ins
• Constructing/packaging/distributing function libraries via Microsoft Excel Add-Ins

Workshop Materials

• The workshop manual contains helpful Microsoft Excel VBA programming topics and code in a user-friendly format.
• The manuals illustrate Microsoft Excel VBA topics using state of the art screen shots and 3-D graphics.
• Each workshop participant receives a comprehensive CD-ROM that contains the workshop examples and reading materials.

Who Should Attend 

• Intermediate Excel/VBA users with a good understanding of VBA's core language (variables, loops, logic decisions) and Microsoft Excel.
• It is intended for all types of business professionals.

EMAGENIT's Public Training Location

Public Location: Thousand Oaks, CA , LAX/Thousand Oaks

Hotel: Thousand Oaks Inn

EMAGENIT is based in Thousand Oaks, California which is in the vicinity of Los Angeles county (LA County), Ventura county, Santa Barbara county and San Diego county. We hold all of our on-site Microsoft Excel VBA courses nation wide. Our public workshops are a short commute for those living in the San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita, Newbury Park, Camarillo, Calabasas, Sherman Oaks, Reseda, Woodland Hills, Hollywood, Fillmore, Ventura, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Santa Monica and Oxnard areas. For more information about our public workshops, visit our public workshops page our call us at the number above.