This book provides Excel power-users, as well as programmers who are unfamiliar with the Excel object model, with a solid introduction to writing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros and ...

How to write VBA code If you want to learn Visual Basic for Applications, start with our guide to creating Excel macros.

Access the Developer tab in Excel to write and run VBA code. Create a new VBA module to house your automation code. The PageSetup object is essential for customizing headers and footers.

The bare bones VBA code A simple list of sheet names is easy to generate using VBA thanks to the Worksheets collection. Listing A shows a simple For Each loop that cycles through this collection.

When you need to delete records based on a single value in Microsoft Excel, use this Visual Basic procedure. It can make your life a lot easier.