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Excel® 2013 Power Programming with VBA

Table of Contents

Introduction

Topics Covered

What You Need to Know

What You Need to Have

Conventions in This Book

Excel commands

Visual Basic Editor commands

Keyboard conventions

Mouse conventions

What the Icons Mean

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Some Essential Background

Part II: Understanding Visual Basic for Applications

Part III: Working with UserForms

Part IV: Advanced Programming Techniques

Part V: Developing Applications

Part VI: Other Topics

Part VII: Appendixes

About This Book's Website

About the Power Utility Pak Offer

How to Use This Book

Part I: Some Essential Background

Chapter 1: Excel in a Nutshell

Excel 5 and 95 dialog sheets

Excel's User Interface

About the Ribbon

Shortcut menus and the Mini toolbar

Protecting formulas from being overwritten

Protecting a workbook's structure

Applying password protection to a workbook

Protecting VBA code with a password

Excel's Help System

Chapter 2: Formula Tricks and Techniques

About Formulas

Calculating Formulas

Cell and Range References

Why use references that aren't relative?

About R1C1 notation

Referencing other sheets or workbooks

Using Names

Naming cells and ranges

Applying names to existing references

Excel Auditing Tools

Identifying cells of a particular type

Viewing formulas

Tracing cell relationships

Tracing error values

Fixing circular reference errors

Using the background error-checking feature

Using Excel's Formula Evaluator

Array Formulas

An array formula example

An array formula calendar

Array formula pros and cons

Counting and Summing Techniques

Counting formula examples

Summing formula examples

Other counting tools

Lookup Formulas

Working with Dates and Times

Entering dates and times

Using pre-1900 dates

Creating Megaformulas

Chapter 3: Understanding Excel Files

Starting Excel

File Types

Excel file formats

Text file formats

Database file formats

Other file formats

Excel File Compatibility

Protected View

Using AutoRecover

Recovering versions of the current workbook

Recovering unsaved work

Inside an Excel File

Dissecting a file

Why is the file format important?

The OfficeUI File

The XLB File

Add-In Files

Excel Settings in the Registry

About the Registry

Excel's settings

Chapter 4: Essentials of Spreadsheet Application Development

What Is a Spreadsheet Application?

Steps for Application Development

Determining User Needs

Planning an Application That Meets User Needs

Determining the Most Appropriate User Interface

Customizing the Ribbon

Customizing shortcut menus

Creating shortcut keys

Creating custom dialog boxes

Using ActiveX controls on a worksheet

Executing the development effort

Concerning Yourself with the End User

Testing the application

Making the application bulletproof

Making the application aesthetically appealing and intuitive

Creating a user Help system

Documenting the development effort

Distributing the application to the user

Updating the application when necessary

Other Development Issues

The user's installed version of Excel

Language issues

System speed

Video modes

Part II: Understanding Visual Basic for Applications

Chapter 5: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications

Getting Some BASIC Background

Delving into VBA

Object models

VBA versus XLM

Covering the Basics of VBA

Introducing Visual Basic Editor

Displaying Excel's Developer tab

Activating VBE

VBE windows

Working with Project Explorer

Adding a new VBA module

Removing a VBA module

Exporting and importing objects

Working with Code Windows

Minimizing and maximizing windows

Storing VBA code

Entering VBA code

Customizing the VBE Environment

Using the Editor tab

Using the Editor Format tab

Using the General tab

Using the Docking tab

The Macro Recorder

What the macro recorder actually records

Relative or absolute recording?

Recording options

Cleaning up recorded macros

About Objects and Collections

The object hierarchy

The Comment Object: A Case Study

Viewing Help for the Comment object

Properties of a Comment object

Methods of a Comment object

The Comments collection

About the Comment property

Objects contained in a Comment object

Determining whether a cell has a comment

Adding a new Comment object

Some Useful Application Properties

Working with Range Objects

The Range property

The Cells property

The Offset property

Things to Know about Objects

Essential concepts to remember

Learning more about objects and properties

Chapter 6: VBA Programming Fundamentals

VBA Language Elements: An Overview

Comments

Variables, Data Types, and Constants

Defining data types

Declaring variables

Scoping variables

Working with constants

Working with strings

Working with dates

Assignment Statements

Arrays

Declaring arrays

Declaring multidimensional arrays

Declaring dynamic arrays

Object Variables

User-Defined Data Types

Built-in Functions

Manipulating Objects and Collections

With-End With constructs

For Each-Next constructs

Controlling Code Execution

GoTo statements

If-Then constructs

Select Case constructs

Looping blocks of instructions

Chapter 7: Working with VBA Sub Procedures

About Procedures

Declaring a Sub procedure

Scoping a procedure

Executing Sub Procedures

Executing a procedure with the Run Sub/UserForm command

Executing a procedure from the Macro dialog box

Executing a procedure with a Ctrl+shortcut key combination

Executing a procedure from the Ribbon

Executing a procedure from a customized shortcut menu

Executing a procedure from another procedure

Executing a procedure by clicking an object

Executing a procedure when an event occurs

Executing a procedure from the Immediate window

Passing Arguments to Procedures

What you need to know

Some preliminary recording

Initial setup

Code writing

Writing the Sort procedure

More testing

Fixing the problems

Utility availability

Evaluating the project

Chapter 8: Creating Function Procedures

Sub Procedures versus Function Procedures

Why Create Custom Functions?

An Introductory Function Example

Using the function in a worksheet

Using the function in a VBA procedure

Analyzing the custom function

Functions with no argument

A function with one argument

A function with two arguments

A function with an array argument

A function with optional arguments

A function that returns a VBA array

A function that returns an error value

A function with an indefinite number of arguments

Emulating Excel's SUM function

Extended Date Functions

Debugging Functions

Dealing with the Insert Function Dialog Box

Using the MacroOptions method

Specifying a function category

Adding a function description manually

Using Add-ins to Store Custom Functions

Using the Windows API

Windows API examples

Determining the Windows directory

Detecting the Shift key

Learning more about API functions

Chapter 9: VBA Programming Examples and Techniques

Learning by Example

Working with Ranges

Copying a range

Moving a range

Copying a variably sized range

Selecting or otherwise identifying various types of ranges

Resizing a range

Prompting for a cell value

Entering a value in the next empty cell

Pausing a macro to get a user-selected range

Counting selected cells

Determining the type of selected range

Looping through a selected range efficiently

Deleting all empty rows

Duplicating rows a variable number of times

Determining whether a range is contained in another range

Determining a cell's data type

Reading and writing ranges

A better way to write to a range

Transferring one-dimensional arrays

Transferring a range to a variant array

Selecting cells by value

Copying a noncontiguous range

Working with Workbooks and Sheets

Saving all workbooks

Saving and closing all workbooks

Hiding all but the selection

Creating a hyperlink table of contents

Synchronizing worksheets

VBA Techniques

Toggling a Boolean property

Displaying the date and time

Displaying friendly time

Getting a list of fonts

Sorting an array

Processing a series of files

Some Useful Functions for Use in Your Code

The FileExists function

The FileNameOnly function

The PathExists function

The RangeNameExists function

The SheetExists function

The WorkbookIsOpen function

Retrieving a value from a closed workbook

Some Useful Worksheet Functions

Returning cell formatting information

A talking worksheet

Displaying the date when a file was saved or printed

Understanding object parents

Counting cells between two values

Determining the last nonempty cell in a column or row

Does a string match a pattern?

Extracting the nth element from a string

Spelling out a number

A multifunctional function

The SHEETOFFSET function

Returning the maximum value across all worksheets

Returning an array of nonduplicated random integers

Randomizing a range

Sorting a range

Windows API Calls

Determining file associations

Determining disk drive information

Determining default printer information

Determining video display information

Reading from and writing to the Registry

Part III: Working with UserForms

Chapter 10: Custom Dialog Box Alternatives

Before You Create That UserForm

Using an Input Box

The VBA InputBox function

The Excel InputBox method

The VBA MsgBox Function

The Excel GetOpenFilename Method

The Excel GetSaveAsFilename Method

Prompting for a Directory

Displaying Excel's Built-In Dialog Boxes

Displaying a Data Form

Making the data form accessible

Displaying a data form by using VBA

Chapter 11: Introducing UserForms

How Excel Handles Custom Dialog Boxes

Inserting a New UserForm

Adding Controls to a UserForm

Adjusting a Control's Properties

Using the Properties window

Common properties

Accommodating keyboard users

Displaying a UserForm

Adjusting the display position

Displaying a modeless UserForm

Displaying a UserForm based on a variable

Loading a UserForm

About event-handler procedures

Closing a UserForm

Creating a UserForm: An Example

Creating the UserForm

Writing code to display the dialog box

Testing the dialog box

Adding event-handler procedures

Validating the data

The finished dialog box

Understanding UserForm Events

Learning about events

UserForm events

SpinButton events

Pairing a SpinButton with a TextBox

Referencing UserForm Controls

Customizing the Toolbox

Adding new pages to the Toolbox

Customizing or combining controls

Adding new ActiveX controls

Creating UserForm Templates

A UserForm Checklist

Chapter 12: UserForm Examples

Creating a UserForm “Menu”

Using CommandButtons in a UserForm

Using a ListBox in a UserForm

Selecting Ranges from a UserForm

Creating a Splash Screen

Disabling a UserForm's Close Button

Changing a UserForm's Size

Zooming and Scrolling a Sheet from a UserForm

ListBox Techniques

Adding items to a ListBox control

Determining the selected item in a ListBox

Determining multiple selections in a ListBox

Multiple lists in a single ListBox

ListBox item transfer

Moving items in a ListBox

Working with multicolumn ListBox controls

Using a ListBox to select worksheet rows

Using a ListBox to activate a sheet

Using the MultiPage Control in a UserForm

Using an External Control

Animating a Label

Chapter 13: Advanced UserForm Techniques

A Modeless Dialog Box

Displaying a Progress Indicator

Creating a stand-alone progress indicator

Showing a progress indicator by using a MultiPage control

Showing a progress indicator without using a MultiPage control

Creating Wizards

Setting up the MultiPage control for the wizard

Adding the buttons to the wizard's UserForm

Programming the wizard's buttons

Programming dependencies in a wizard

Performing the task with the wizard

Emulating the MsgBox Function

MsgBox emulation: MyMsgBox code

How the MyMsgBox function works

Using the MyMsgBox function

A UserForm with Movable Controls

A UserForm with No Title Bar

Simulating a Toolbar with a UserForm

Emulating a Task Pane with a UserForm

A Resizable UserForm

Handling Multiple UserForm Controls with One Event Handler

Selecting a Color in a UserForm

Displaying a Chart in a UserForm

Saving a chart as a GIF file

Changing the Image control's Picture property

Making a UserForm Semitransparent

An Enhanced Data Form

About the Enhanced Data Form

Installing the Enhanced Data Form add-in

A Puzzle on a UserForm

Video Poker on a UserForm

Part IV: Advanced Programming Techniques

Chapter 14: Developing Excel Utilities with VBA

About Excel Utilities

Using VBA to Develop Utilities

What Makes a Good Utility?

Text Tools: The Anatomy of a Utility

Background for Text Tools

Project goals for Text Tools

The Text Tools workbook

How the Text Tools utility works

The UserForm for the Text Tools utility

The Module1 VBA module

The UserForm1 code module

Making the Text Tools utility efficient

Saving the Text Tools utility settings

Implementing Undo

Displaying the Help file

Adding the RibbonX code

Post-mortem of the project

Understand the Text Tools utility

More about Excel Utilities

Chapter 15: Working with Pivot Tables

An Introductory Pivot Table Example

Creating a pivot table

Examining the recorded code for the pivot table

Cleaning up the recorded pivot table code

Creating a More Complex Pivot Table

The code that created the pivot table

How the more complex pivot table works

Creating Multiple Pivot Tables

Creating a Reverse Pivot Table

Chapter 16: Working with Charts

Getting the Inside Scoop on Charts

Chart locations

The macro recorder and charts

The Chart object model

Creating an Embedded Chart

Creating a Chart on a Chart Sheet

Modifying Charts

Using VBA to Activate a Chart

Moving a Chart

Using VBA to Deactivate a Chart

Determining Whether a Chart Is Activated

Deleting from the ChartObjects or Charts Collection

Looping through All Charts

Sizing and Aligning ChartObjects

Creating Lots of Charts

Exporting a Chart

Exporting all graphics

Changing the Data Used in a Chart

Changing chart data based on the active cell

Using VBA to determine the ranges used in a chart

Using VBA to Display Arbitrary Data Labels on a Chart

Displaying a Chart in a UserForm

Understanding Chart Events

An example of using Chart events

Enabling events for an embedded chart

Example: Using Chart events with an embedded chart

Discovering VBA Charting Tricks

Printing embedded charts on a full page

Hiding series by hiding columns

Creating unlinked charts

Displaying text with the MouseOver event

Animating Charts

Scrolling a chart

Creating a hypocycloid chart

Creating a clock chart

Creating an Interactive Chart without VBA

Getting the data to create an interactive chart

Creating the Option Button controls for an interactive chart

Creating the city lists for the interactive chart

Creating the interactive chart data range

Creating the interactive chart

Working with Sparkline Charts

Chapter 17: Understanding Excel's Events

What You Should Know about Events

Understanding event sequences

Where to put event-handler procedures

Disabling events

Entering event-handler code

Event-handler procedures that use arguments

Getting Acquainted with Workbook-Level Events

The Open event

The Activate event

The SheetActivate event

The NewSheet event

The BeforeSave event

The Deactivate event

The BeforePrint event

The BeforeClose event

Examining Worksheet Events

The Change event

Monitoring a specific range for changes

The SelectionChange event

The BeforeDoubleClick event

The BeforeRightClick event

Checking Out Chart Events

Monitoring with Application Events

Enabling Application-level events

Determining when a workbook is opened

Monitoring Application-level events

Using UserForm Events

Accessing Events Not Associated with an Object

The OnTime event

The OnKey event

Chapter 18: Interacting with Other Applications

Starting an Application from Excel

Using the VBA Shell function

Displaying a folder window

Using the Windows ShellExecute API function

Activating an Application with Excel

Using AppActivate

Activating a Microsoft Office application

Running Control Panel Dialog Boxes

Using Automation in Excel

Working with foreign objects using automation

Early versus late binding

A simple example of late binding

Controlling Word from Excel

Controlling Excel from another application

Sending Personalized E-Mail via Outlook

Sending E-Mail Attachments from Excel

Chapter 19: Creating and Using Add-Ins

What Is an Add-In?

Comparing an add-in with a standard workbook

Why create add-ins?

Understanding Excel's Add-In Manager

Comparing XLAM and XLSM Files

XLAM file VBA collection membership

Visibility of XLSM and XLAM files

Worksheets and chart sheets in XLSM and XLAM files

Accessing VBA procedures in an add-in

Manipulating Add-Ins with VBA

AddIn object properties

Accessing an add-in as a workbook

AddIn object events

Optimizing the Performance of Add-ins

Special Problems with Add-Ins

Ensuring that an add-in is installed

Referencing other files from an add-in

Detecting the proper Excel version for your add-in

Part V: Developing Applications

Chapter 20: Working with the Ribbon

Ribbon Basics

Using VBA with the Ribbon

Accessing a Ribbon control

Working with the Ribbon

Activating a tab

Customizing the Ribbon

A simple RibbonX example

A simple Ribbon example, take 2

Another RibbonX example

Ribbon controls demo

A dynamicMenu Control Example

More on Ribbon customization

Creating an Old-Style Toolbar

Limitations of old-style toolbars in Excel 2007 and later

Code to create a toolbar

Chapter 21: Working with Shortcut Menus

CommandBar Overview

CommandBar types

Listing shortcut menus

Referring to CommandBars

Referring to controls in a CommandBar

Properties of CommandBar controls

Displaying all shortcut menu items

Using VBA to Customize Shortcut Menus

What's different in Excel 2013

Resetting a shortcut menu

Disabling a shortcut menu

Disabling shortcut menu items

Adding a new item to the Cell shortcut menu

Adding a submenu to a shortcut menu

Limiting a shortcut menu to a single workbook

Shortcut Menus and Events

Adding and deleting menus automatically

Disabling or hiding shortcut menu items

Creating a context-sensitive shortcut menu

Chapter 22: Providing Help for Your Applications

Help for Your Excel Applications

Help Systems That Use Excel Components

Using cell comments for help

Using a text box for help

Using a worksheet to display help text

Displaying help in a UserForm

Displaying Help in a Web Browser

Using HTML files

Using an MHTML file

Using the HTML Help System

Using the Help method to display HTML Help

Associating a help file with your application

Associating a help topic with a VBA function

Chapter 23: Developing User-Oriented Applications

What Is a User-Oriented Application?

The Loan Amortization Wizard

Using the Loan Amortization Wizard

The Loan Amortization Wizard workbook structure

How the Loan Amortization Wizard works

Potential enhancements for the Loan Amortization Wizard

Application Development Concepts

Part VI: Other Topics

Chapter 24: Compatibility Issues

What Is Compatibility?

Types of Compatibility Problems

Avoid Using New Features

But Will It Work on a Mac?

Dealing with 64-bit Excel

Creating an International Application

Multilanguage applications

VBA language considerations

Using local properties

Identifying system settings

Date and time settings

Chapter 25: Manipulating Files with VBA

Performing Common File Operations

Using VBA file-related statements

Using the FileSystemObject object

Displaying Extended File Information

Working with Text Files

Opening a text file

Reading a text file

Writing a text file

Getting a file number

Determining or setting the file position

Statements for reading and writing

Text File Manipulation Examples

Importing data in a text file

Exporting a range to a text file

Importing a text file to a range

Logging Excel usage

Filtering a text file

Exporting a range to HTML format

Exporting a range to an XML file

Zipping and Unzipping Files

Zipping files

Unzipping a file

Working with ADO

Chapter 26: Manipulating Visual Basic Components

Introducing IDE

The IDE Object Model

The VBProjects collection

Displaying All Components in a VBA Project

Listing All VBA Procedures in a Workbook

Replacing a Module with an Updated Version

Using VBA to Write VBA Code

Adding Controls to a UserForm at Design Time

Design-time versus runtime UserForm manipulations

Adding 100 CommandButtons at design time

Creating UserForms Programmatically

A simple runtime UserForm example

A useful (but not simple) dynamic UserForm example

Chapter 27: Understanding Class Modules

What Is a Class Module?

Example: Creating a NumLock Class

Inserting a class module

Adding VBA code to the class module

Using the NumLockClass class

More about Class Modules

Programming properties of objects

Programming methods for objects

Class module events

Example: A CSV File Class

Class module–level variables for the CSVFileClass

Property procedures for the CSVFileClass

Method procedures for the CSVFileClass

Using the CSVFileClass object

Chapter 28: Working with Colors

Specifying Colors

The RGB color system

The HSL color system

Converting colors

Understanding Grayscale

Converting colors to gray

Experimenting with Colors

Understanding Document Themes

About document themes

Understanding document theme colors

Displaying all theme colors

Working with Shape Objects

A shape's background color

Shapes and theme colors

Modifying Chart Colors

Chapter 29: Frequently Asked Questions about Excel Programming

Getting the Scoop on FAQs

General Excel Questions

Visual Basic Editor

Part VII: Appendixes

Appendix A: VBA Statements and Functions Reference

Appendix B: VBA Error Codes

Appendix C: This Book's Website

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