You could choose to write macros for a single worksheet only, or choose to have them available in the entire workbook.Īs the two worksheets we created earlier only maintain the parameters, I chose to write the macros for the entire workbook by double-clicking the "ThisWorkbook" option in the sidebar for our project.ĭon't worry about the PERSONAL.xlsb in my screenshot for now – this is a file containing functions that I can use in all my files and will be handled in a future tutorial.ĪDVERTISEMENT How to Create Our First MacroĪfter you've selected the workbook, you are ready to start your first program. Now, let's got our hands dirty and write our first macro. I will not go into too much detail for now, but I'll just explain some of the elements as we go. This is the editor provided by Excel where you will be able to create, adjust, and remove your functions and macros. You should now be able to open Visual Basic from the Developer tab in Excel, which should look something like this: Figure 04: Visual Basic In order to do so, make sure that the Developer box is ticked (as shown in Figure 3 below) and that the Developer options are available in your ribbon after you have saved your changes. If this is the first time you are using VBA, you might need to customize your ribbon to get the necessary functions available. Now that we have set the parameters, we can move on with actually building the macro. As long as you have a cell with a date, preferably cell B1, that is enough.įor this tutorial, we'll only need the month and year, so I have chosen a different date format as shown below: Figure 02: Date WorksheetĪDVERTISEMENT How to Build a Macro with Visual Basic for Applications I have also added data validation to make sure we can only enter a date and to make sure it's a date not beyond today's date (but this is completely optional). Since not every year and month are the same (for example different number of days, different number of weekdays), the template for your data needs to be adjusted every single month in order to correctly show these differences. To define the date, we will create another worksheet called Date where the user can define the month they want the template to be created for. Rename the first worksheet to Cities and add the six cities by typing their names in the first column with a city on every row, as shown here: Figure 01: Cities Worksheet
Open a new Excel file, save it as Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook (extension. You can also find them on my GitHub together with the final result.ĪDVERTISEMENT How to Set Up the Excel Workbook
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I have downloaded several Excel files of data which are free to use. But you don't need any experience with VBA (although it might help you understand the different concepts I'll introduce). In order to follow along with this tutorial, I expect you to have a basic understanding of Excel. The template will be automatically created by a macro we build together based on the cities and date that we use as parameters.įinally, we will also learn how to import the data from another file in our template. In this tutorial we will be writing a macro that prepares a template to note the temperatures in several European cities – Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, London, and Rome. The language is object oriented, it's written in C++, and it includes all the features you would expect in a coding language these days. Intro to VBA and Overview of the ProjectĪlthough VBA was declared legacy in 2008, this implementation of Visual Basic can help you automate the repetitive tasks in your daily life. So I will take you through the basics of VBA, such as how to use variables, loops, if-else statements, arrays, and dictionaries. This saves me quite a lot of time in my day-to-day life.īased on the fact that you're reading this tutorial, I assume that you would like to be able to do the same. I use VBA, or Visual Basic for Applications, to automate my repetitive tasks.
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