Advanced Excel Brush-up:
- Introduction to the Data and Data Formats.
- Protection of Cells, Rows, Columns and Sheets.
- Password protection to the Worksheet, Sheets, Rows, Columns, and Cells.
- Text Functions: Concatenate, Left, Mid, Right, Lower, Upper, Proper, Replace, Rept, Find, Search, Substitute.
- Logical Functions: If, If with OR, If with AND, If with AND &OR, If with OR&AND,
- Nested If (For Multiple Conditions.
- Introduction to Name Manager.
- Math & Trig Functions: Sumif, Sumifs, Subtotal.
- Statistical Functions: AverageA, Averageif, Averageifs,CountA, Countblack, Countif, Countifs
Advanced Excel Brush-up Part-II:
- Lookup Functions: Discussion on Lookup Functions, Use of Lookup, Vlookup, Hlookup, Index, Indirect Match, Offset. Choose.
- Use of Data Validation.
- Use of Data Validation as a magical tool.
- Introduction to the Interactive Charts & Dashboard.
- Adding Switches to Dashboard.
- Use of Multiple formulas for Dashboard.
- Pivot Table.
- Pivot Chart & Slicers.
Introduction to VBA:
- What Is VBA? Need and Application of VBA
- Introduction to Developer tab
- Introduction to Macro Recordings: Using the Excel Macro Recorder, Macro Security, Recording Macro, Naming Macro, Executing Macro, Saving and Editing Macro.
- Working In the Visual Basic Editor: Project Explorer, Properties window, Object Browser, Standard Module and Sheet Module.
- Debugging mode, Breakpoints, Bookmarks, Watch window, immediate window and Locals window, Inbuilt VBE Help feature
- Introducing the Excel Object Model: Application, Workbooks, Worksheet Objects
- Variable, Constant and Data types: Variable Naming rules, Declaring, Initializing Variables, Option Explicit, Object Variables
- Simple Dialog Boxes: Message boxes and Input boxes
VBA Programming Concepts:
- Scope and lifetime of variables
- VBA Sub and Function Procedures
- Using VBA and Worksheet Functions
- Working with Range Objects: Properties and Methods of Ranges – Range referencing, selection, activecell, cells and offset properties, resize ranges, value, formula and text properties, clear, delete, copy, paste and format ranges, Filters, special cells method, union and intersect ranges, current region property, working with dynamic ranges, last cell, last row and last column
- Workbooks and Worksheets: The Workbooks Collection, Getting a Filename from a Path, Files in the Same Directory, Overwriting an Existing Workbook, Saving Changes, The Sheets Collection, Worksheets, Copy and Move
Controlling Program Flow with Loops and Logical & Error Handling:
- Using Conditional constructs& Loops: If-Then-Else, Select-Case, And/Or conditions, Using Looping constructs: For-Next, For-Each, Do-While, Do-Until Decision-making and Code Branching, Using Label Constructs
- Automatic Procedures and Events
- Types of Errors: Design Errors, Compile Errors, Runtime Errors. Logical Errors.
- How to Debug the Errors.
- Discussion of Formula Writing Skills in VBA.
- Difference between R1C1 and A1 style for writing formula in VBA.
- Writing of Basic and Complex formulas in VBA.
Error Handling and Arrays:
- Data Validation & Input restrictions Effective Coding
- Testing and debugging your code
- Error-Handling Techniques
- Bug Extermination Techniques
- Using On error Go to and On error Resume next
- Introduction to arrays
- Static Arrays, Dynamic Arrays
- One dimensional, Two dimensional and multi dimensional arrays
Using Names, Sort and Filter, PivotTables and Pivot charts with VBA Macros:
- Named Ranges: Naming Ranges, Using the Name Property of the Range Object, Working with Named Ranges, Determining which Names Overlap a Range
- Sorting: Structuring the Data, Sorting a Range, Sorting a Table,
- Filter: AutoFilter Object, Filter Object, Date Custom Filter, Adding Combo Boxes, Copying the Visible Rows, Advanced Filter
- PivotTables and Pivot charts: Creating a PivotTable Report, PivotCaches, PivotTables Collection, PivotFields, CalculatedFields, PivotItems, Grouping, Visible Property, CalculatedItems, Updating Pivot Tables, Synchronizing multiple pivot tables, PivotCharts, External Data Sources
Advanced User Forms and GUI :
- UserForm Basics
- Using UserForm Controls
- UserForm Techniques and Tricks
- Form Control vs Active X control
- Accessing Your Macros through the User Interface
- User Defined Functions & Add ins
Charts and Dashboards With VBA Macors:
- Charts: Chart Sheets-Adding a Chart Sheet Using VBA Code, Embedded Charts, Using the Macro Recorder, Adding an Embedded Chart Using VBA Code, Creating charts, Defining Chart Series with Arrays, Converting a Chart to Use Arrays, Changing chart type and series type, Adding secondary axis, Changing chart marker options, Determining the Ranges Used in a Chart, Creating Dynamic Charts, Chart Labels, Copying Charts as picture/chart/excel objects into other Microsoft application.
- Creating Interactive Dashboards: Introduction to dashboard and interactive dashboards, Creating dashboard using Named ranges, Charts, Tables, Pivot Tables and user forms, Choosing the right chart – Bullet Chart, Thermo meter chart, Using Alerts in dashboards, Interactive Dashboard Examples.
Discussion on MS Access:
- MS Access.
Start with SQL:
- Create DB
- DDL ( Data Definition Language) – CREATE, ALTER, DROP statements
- DML (Data Manipulation Language) – SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT statements
- DCL (Data Control Language) – GRANT, REVOKE statements
- TCL (Transaction Control Language) – COMMIT, ROLLBACK statements
- Select statement– select, select distinct
- Column and Table Aliases
- Sorting Data – order by
- Filtering Data – WHERE Clause
- Grouping data – Using the GROUP BY Clause , Filtering Groups with HAVING
- Aggregate Functions – count() ,sum() ,avg() ,min() , max() , first(), last()
- Not null, unique, foreign key.
SQL Statements
Data manipulation and extraction
SQL with Joins and Functions:
- Joins – Inner Joins ,Outer Joins , Left joins, Right joins, Cross Joins and Self Joins .
- Set Operators – UNION,EXCEPT, INTERSECT ,APPLY
- Functions – String Functions, Math Functions, Date Functions, Conversion Functions
Joins and Functions
Interacting with Other Office Applications Like MSAccess and Outlook (Mail Merge):
- Establishing the Connection, Late Binding, Early Binding.
- Interacting with Outlook: Drafting and sending mails via Outlook, Adding the recipients’ mail address and subject lines, Adding ranges, charts, tables, text in the mail body, Adding attachments.
- Data Access with ADO Connectivity with Access and SQL: An Overview of ADO, The Connection Object, The Recordset Object, The Command Object, Using ADO in Microsoft Excel Applications, Using ADO with Microsoft Access, Using ADO with Microsoft SQL Server, Using ADO with Non-Standard Data Sources.