Maximize Excel: Intro to Macros Part 4 - A/V​


CPE Credit: 2 hours

If you’d like to learn even more about Excel macros, this course by expert David Ringstrom, CPA, is what you’re looking for! Step-by-step, David walks you through the process of creating custom dialog boxes that can add interactivity in Excel and help you better manage a user’s actions. He builds a custom printing interface that he dubbed “Plug and Print,” which allows you to pick and choose worksheets to print from any workbook. The presentation also teaches you how to create a basic UserForm for prompting users to input data, including all the required fields. In addition, David demonstrates how to move module sheets and UserForms between workbooks, as well as how to remove them from workbooks when they’re no longer needed.
 
David demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in Excel 2016. He draws your attention to any differences in Excel 2013, 2010, or 2007 during the presentation as well as in his detailed handouts. David also provides an Excel workbook that includes most of the examples used in the course. 



Topics Covered

• Dressing up UserForms with Frames as well as using Frames to isolate sets of OptionButtons.
• Testing the Plug and Print UserForm to see how additional worksheets appear automatically in the list of sheets that can be printed.
• Creating a macro to launch a UserForm.
• Triggering macros in Excel by way of CommandButtons added to UserForms.
• Contrasting Option Buttons to CheckBoxes on UserForms for allowing a single selection from two or more choices.
• Moving module sheets or UserForms from one workbook to another.
• Incorporating a new feature that enables you to pick and choose the worksheets to print from any workbook—no programming knowledge or experience required.
• Creating a UserForm or custom dialog box from scratch in Excel.
• Adding CheckBoxes to UserForms to enable users to make selections.
• Adding label controls to UserForms to add captions or display instructions.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the property that allows you to specify or unspecify one or more items within a ListBox.
• Recall the aspect of the Properties Window that allows you to change the wording that appears at the top of a Frame control.
• Recall how to use Frames to isolate sets of OptionButtons.

Course Number: 
DR1936
NASBA Field of Study: 
Computer Software and Applications
Level: 
Intermediate
Presenter:
David Ringstrom
Prerequisites: 
Parts 1 through 3 of this macros series, or equivalent prior experience with writing or editing programming code in Microsoft Excel.
Advanced Preparation: 
None