University of Colorado Boulder
Excel/VBA for Creative Problem Solving Specialization
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University of Colorado Boulder

Excel/VBA for Creative Problem Solving Specialization

Optimize Your Excel Spreadsheets With VBA. Learn how to automate your Excel spreadsheets with Visual Basic for Applications

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(3,818 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
Flexible schedule
1 month at 10 hours a week
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers

What you'll learn

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Taught in English
22 practice exercises

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Specialization - 3 course series

What you'll learn

  • Utilize VBA to define and implement custom user-defined functions

  • Create macros to automate procedures in Excel

  • Identify the basic programming structures in VBA

  • Automate Excel’s Goal Seek and Solver tools and use numerical techniques to create “live solutions” to solve targeting and optimization problems

Skills you'll gain

Category: Visual Basic (Programming Language)
Category: Excel Macros
Category: Computer Programming
Category: Programming Principles
Category: Debugging
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Data Management
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: Program Development
Category: Automation
Category: Problem Solving

What you'll learn

  • Use VBA to import/export arrays from/to Excel

  • Describe how text strings in Excel and how to write data to .txt files and import information from .txt files

  • Automate the import, modification, and consolidation of information from multiple worksheets into a central worksheet

  • Create professional user forms to interface with the user, perform advanced calculations, and manipulate data on the spreadsheet.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Visual Basic (Programming Language)
Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Automation
Category: Event-Driven Programming
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Data Validation
Category: Algorithms
Category: Debugging

What you'll learn

  • Create a VBA user form that will implement or solve a real world scenario or problem

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Visual Basic (Programming Language)
Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: Simulations
Category: Debugging
Category: Data Management

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Instructor

Charlie Nuttelman
University of Colorado Boulder
10 Courses456,250 learners

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