Training videos for learning VBA - ADVANCED

Flappy Owl in Excel VBA

Posted by Andrew Gould on 11 April 2014

A quick introductory video showing off the Flappy Bird game, built entirely in Excel VBA!

Excel VBA Part 15.2 - Find and FindNext

Posted by Andrew Gould on 13 October 2014

You can use the Find and FindNext methods in Excel VBA to find values in a worksheet - exactly as the name suggests! This video explains how the methods work, including how to make the search case-sensitive, how to find full or partial matches and how to use Do While loops to find all the instances of something that you're searching for.

Excel VBA Part 20a - Application Events

Posted by Andrew Gould on 26 November 2015

In an earlier video in the series we've seen how to write event-handlers for workbooks and worksheets; this video teaches you how to access events of the Excel application itself! You'll learn the significance of the WithEvents keyword, a couple of the basic application events such as the new workbook event, and how to use a basic class module to keep your application event handlers neatly organised.

Excel VBA Part 25 - Arrays

Posted by Andrew Gould on 12 March 2014

An array is a lot like a variable, only with an array you can store more than one value under the same variable name. This video explains how to work with arrays in VBA, including how to declare basic, fixed-size arrays, populate and read from an array and how to detect the lower and upper bounds of an array. The second half of the video demonstrates more sophisticated arrays including dynamic arrays and multi-dimensional arrays, as well as covering some techniques for speeding up calculations by using arrays. You'll also see how to resize arrays dynamically, and how to transpose an array.

Excel VBA Part 26 - Constants and Enumerations

Posted by Andrew Gould on 17 March 2014

Constants in VBA are values which don't change - there are lots of built-in examples and you can also create your own. This video teaches you how to declare and use constants in your VBA procedures. You'll also learn how to create collections of constants called Enumerations, how to reference them in your code and also how to use them as a new data type for variables and parameters of procedures.

Excel VBA Part 33 - Creating Add Ins

Posted by Andrew Gould on 13 October 2014

Creating an Excel VBA Add-In is a great way to make your custom functions available to other Excel workbooks and VBA projects. This video teaches you how to create an add-in from scratch, including how to write VBA functions, where to save your add-in, how to enable an add-in to make it available to other workbooks and how to reference an add-in from a VBA project.

Excel VBA - Disable Screen Updates

Posted by Andrew Gould on 26 November 2015

You can give your VBA code a quick performance boost by simply disabling screen updates while your code runs. This video explains how to achieve that, as well as how to create a basic timer system to test the results.

Excel VBA Part 43.1 - ByRef and ByVal

Posted by Andrew Gould on 17 October 2016

Passing values to other procedures is something you'll do commonly in VBA and the ByRef and ByVal keywords control exactly what happens to those values. This video explains the theory of passing information by reference and by value, as well as covering a couple of practical examples to demonstrate how to use the ByRef and ByVal keywords effectively.

Excel VBA Part 43.2 - ByRef and ByVal (When to use Parentheses)

Posted by Andrew Gould on 24 October 2016

When to use parentheses (round brackets) is one of the apparently annoyingly inconsistent features of VBA. There are some clearly defined rules which dictate when you should and shouldn't use parentheses and this video attempts to explain them!

Excel VBA Part 44 - Making Excel Talk

Posted by Andrew Gould on 17 October 2016

One of Excel's more unusual features is its ability to speak to you! Not intelligently, of course, but you can make Excel vocalise a specific phrase or the contents of cells, or any other expression you can think of. This video shows you how to access the speech feature in Excel and use it to create a couple of small but fun examples.

Excel VBA Part 45 - Finding the Last Used Row, Column and Cell

Posted by Andrew Gould on 25 October 2016

There are several techniques you can use in VBA to find the last row, column or cell in a worksheet. This video shows you a range of options including using the End and Offset properties; the CurrentRegion property of a Range and the UsedRange property of a Worksheet; the LastCell option of the SpecialCells method and, finally, the trusty Find method.