So today, I am going to teach you the basics of VBA, and how it could be a great foundation to enhance your Excel skills to a higher level of expertise. My peers simply couldn’t compete with me because I was significantly more productive than them. What’s even more remarkable is that from my time saved, I was able to solve other problems for the companies I worked for and was promoted several times.

Well, quite simply, you can write some code (known as Visual Basic for Applications (or VBA), which sits ‘behind the scenes and can do all the tasks you normally would from copying/pasting, writing formulas, creating charts, saving files in a folder and pretty much everything else you can imagine! The potential to save time is incredible, I regularly create VBA scripts that save me up to an hour and my personal record is automating an entire monthly reporting process that lasted over 100 hours down to 5 minutes!

Why do we need to learn VBA Excel? VBA is an incredible skill because it can help us automate our work that is anything you do in Excel with a certain amount of repetition or frequency can be dealt with automatically by controlling Excel.

It is an implementation of Microsoft’s event-driven programming language Visual Basic Excel, which is now used with Microsoft Office applications such as MS Excel, MS Word, and MS Access. What is VBA in Excel? VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications.

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