VBA Tutorials for professionals

Download free VBA tutorial course in PDF, training file in 46 chapters and 202 pages. Free unaffiliated ebook created from Stack OverFlow contributor.

Table of contents

• About
• Getting started with VBA
• Accessing the Visual Basic Editor in Microsoft O?ce
• Debugging
• First Module and Hello World
• Comments
• Apostrophe Comments
• REM Comments
• String Literals - Escaping, non-printable characters and line-continuations
• Escaping the " character
• Assigning long string literals
• Using VBA string constants
• VBA Option Keyword
• Option Explicit
• Option Base {0 | 1}
• Option Compare {Binary | Text | Database}
• Declaring Variables
• Type Hints
• Variables
• Constants (Const)
• Declaring Fixed-Length Strings
• When to use a Static variable
• Implicit And Explicit Declaration
• Access Modi?ers
• Declaring and assigning strings
• Assignment to and from a byte array
• Declare a string constant
• Declare a variable-width string variable
• Declare and assign a ?xed-width string
• Declare and assign a string array
• Assign speci?c characters within a string using Mid statement
• Concatenating strings
• Concatenate an array of strings using the Join function
• Concatenate strings using the & operator
• Frequently used string manipulation
• String manipulation frequently used examples
• Substrings
• Use Left or Left$ to get the 3 left-most characters in a string
• Use Right or Right$ to get the 3 right-most characters in a string
• Use Mid or Mid$ to get speci?c characters from within a string
• Use Trim to get a copy of the string without any leading or trailing spaces
• Searching within strings for the presence of substrings
• Use InStr to determine if a string contains a substring
• Use InStrRev to ?nd the position of the last instance of a substring
• Use InStr to ?nd the position of the ?rst instance of a substring
• Comments
• VBA Option Keyword
• Declaring and assigning strings
• Frequently used string manipulation
• Searching within strings for the presence of substrings
• Measuring the length of strings
• Date Time Manipulation
• Naming Conventions
• Arrays
• Collections
• Sorting
• Passing Arguments ByRef or ByVal
• Working With Files and Directories Without Using FileSystemObject
• Creating a procedure
• Conditional Compilation
• Creating a Custom Class
• Recursion
• Scripting.Dictionary object
• Attributes
• CreateObject vs. GetObject
• API Calls
• Macro security and signing of VBA-projects/-modules
• Error Handling

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