Introduction to Excel and Excel VBA

Excel Snippets offers a tutorial for those with no programming experience using Excel or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Here you earn how to use this software package to perform calculations, display data analysis results, and streamline repetitive tasks.

We tested the code examples using Excel 365 in Windows 10 and 11 environments. If you encounter problems when running any, please send feedback to pearson@excelsnippets.com.

Microsoft Excel and VBA are a popular spreadsheet-based tools used in many applications areas, such as business, science, and engineering. You can use these to manipulate, summarize, and analyze data. We consider Excel the gold-standard in spreadsheet application software.

The standard package comes with:

• an extensive collection of built-in Excel functions
• graphics tools
• pivot tables
• customizable templates for popular data reporting needs 
• a code developer add-on called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
• companion built-in VBA functions for interacting with Excel spreadsheets

Users often use Excel for data storage and convenient sharing with others. Each spreadsheet holds 1,048,576 rows with 16,384 columns, which are over 17 billion cells of information!

The initial journey of using Excel and VBA starts with understanding the basic structure of Excel workbooks and spreadsheets.Excel Basics is the starting point for beginners.