Unlock the power of Excel macros and say goodbye to repetitive tasks like copying data, creating reports, or updating formats. This beginner-friendly tutorial guides you through automating these tasks with just one click!
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The essentials of Excel macros:
️ Why use macros: Ideal for automating routine Excel tasks.
️ Recording a Macro: Learn how to record macros using the bottom status bar or Developer tab. Remember that every click counts when registering!
️ Creating dynamic selections: Use keyboard shortcuts like Control Shift Down/Right to make your macro adaptable to different data lengths.
️ Editing macro code: Dive into Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to fine-tune your macros, such as dynamically changing chart titles.
️ Added error checks: Integrate “IF” conditions into VBA to avoid errors when running macros on different sheets.
️ Saving Macros: Remember to save your workbook as a macro-enabled file (.xlsm) to retain macro functions.
In this video you will learn the basics of macros and VBA in Excel. Plus, you learn all this in 10 minutes! Macros allow you to automate repetitive tasks in Excel. I'll show you how to enable the Developer tab, which allows you to record and run macros. We will do an example on how to automatically create and format an Excel chart based on a dataset. This dataset has different ranges, so we want to record the macro in such a way that its dynamics depends on the size of the data. You'll learn how to avoid a common mistake when referencing ranges in Excel. Instead of hardcoding a certain data range with Excel macros, we will use dynamic cell referencing.
I will show you what the macro recorder can record and what actions you need to add to the Visual Basic editor yourself. I'll add an example using the IF statement in VBA and also referencing a range for the chart title. Learn how to save your spreadsheet so you can access your Excel macros again in the future.
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00:00 Excel Macro Tutorial for Beginners
01:12 How to record a macro in Excel
06:36 How to manually adjust code in Visual Basic Editor
07:33 Add an IF condition to avoid errors
09:10 How to save an Excel workbook with a macro
09:34 Conclusion
LINKS to related videos:
Relative referencing – Copy data from one sheet to another: https://youtu.be/8IreWUk1Al4
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