Publication date : 03/06/2024
Course : Excel: Getting Started with Application Develoment in VBAoptional TOSA® certification
Practical course - 4d
- 28h00 - Ref. BAV
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 | Viewing a macro’s VBA code and making simple changes in an editor |
| Knowing Excel objects, their properties, and essential methods |
| Using different conditional structures of the language, variables and constants, and handling errors. |
| Creating input forms and creating event procedures |
Practical details
Certificate
Discussions, hands-on exercises, and practice that will prepare you to take the TOSA® certification exam if you chose it as an option
Teaching methods
Active learning based on discussions, real-world exercises, and practice if taking the TOSA® certification exam, and an evaluation of what was learned from the training.
Course schedule
1 Development using macros
- Defining and identifying the limits of a macro: Need to use VBA.
- Recording a macro and displaying the code.
- Assigning a macro to a button.
- Using variable dimension ranges.
Hands-on work
Overview of the TOSA® test, and head count of participants when going around the room. Recording macros to learn about VBA code.
2 Getting started with Excel VBA language
- Viewing a macro’s code and making simple changes in an editor.
- Identifying what sets different versions of Excel apart.
- Understanding the VBA environment: Modules, projects, objects, and their properties.
- Knowing the main objects of Excel (Workbook, Worksheet, Range), their properties and essential methods.
Hands-on work
Working on variable dimension ranges. Consolidating information from multiple tabs.
3 Language structure
- Knowing conditionals: IF ...END IF, SELECT CASE. FOR NEXT, DO WHILE, UNTIL, FOR EACH NEXT loops.
- Understanding variables and constants. Documenting the code.
- Managing runtime errors, debugging.
- Working with procedures and functions. Calls, branches.
Hands-on work
Analyzing and then creating code to act conditionally on cell ranges.
4 Dialog box and forms
- Using the message box, input box. Excel dialogs.
- Defining and understanding the role of a UserForm in Excel.
- Describing a form’s different objects, control properties in a form.
- Retrieving, controlling, and using data entered in the form.
Hands-on work
Creating a UserForm to use the entered data.
5 Event procedures
- Understanding the event procedure. The first workbook and sheet events (Open, Activate).
- Initializing and configuring a control: Control events in UserForm.
Hands-on work
Defining actions to be run when a workbook is opened, when a UserForm is displayed.
6 Communicating with Word or PowerPoint
- Using automation, referencing a library.
- Working with the Application object.
Hands-on work
With VBA, transfer an Excel table into a Word document or PowerPoint presentation. Optional: Certifying your skills with TOSA®.
Options
Certification : 80 € HT
If registering for the TOSA® certification option, you must do so at the same time as course registration. The exam is made up of a 60-minute adaptive test with 35 exercises. The result indicates your skill level. Merely taking the course is not sufficient to achieve a maximum score. The exam is proctored by the instructor and is carried out online during the last half-hour of the course. If taking place in a remote classroom, the exam must be both scheduled and then taken online within 4 weeks following the start of your session.
Customer reviews
4,8 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
AURORE D.
16/12/25
5 / 5
Have the course material available before the course so that you can go over the theory before starting the practical trainingpropose additional exercises to be done between the training days if some people want to practise, so that there is time to change the next day to focus on the key points.
GWLADYS C.
16/12/25
5 / 5
a trainer who listens. Thank you
CONG HUNG D.
16/12/25
5 / 5
The explanations are clear. The pace is adapted to each participant. There is a lot of teaching. The examples are clear and precise.
PARTICIPANTS
PREREQUISITES
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
PREREQUISITES
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TEACHING AIDS AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES
• The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
• The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
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