Excel 2013 VBA and Macros

by Bill Jelen, Tracy Syrstad

SAVE TIME AND SUPERCHARGE EXCEL 2013 WITH VBA AND MACROS! Use Excel ® 2013 VBA and Macros to automate virtually any routine task, and save yourself hours, days, maybe
even weeks. Then, learn how to make Excel do things you thought were simply impossible! You’ll discover macro
techniques you won’t find anywhere else and learn how to create automated reports that are amazingly powerful
and useful. Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad show how to instantly visualize information, so you and your colleagues
can understand and act on it…how to capture data from anywhere, and use it anywhere…how to automate
Excel 2013’s most valuable new features. Mastering advanced Excel macros has never been easier. You’ll find
simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world examples and case studies, and 50 workbooks packed with bonus
examples, macros, and solutions–straight from MrExcel. • Get started fast with Excel 2013 macro development • Write macros that use Excel 2013 enhancements, including Timelines and the latest pivot table models • Work efficiently with ranges, cells, and R1C1-style formulas • Build super-fast applications with arrays • Write Excel 2013 VBA code that works on older versions of Excel • Create custom dialog boxes to collect information from your users • Use error handling to make your macros more resilient • Use web queries and new web service functions to integrate data from anywhere • Master advanced techniques such as classes, collections, and custom functions • Build sophisticated data mining and business analysis applications • Read and write to both Access and SQL Server databases • Control other Office programs–and even control Windows itself • Start writing Excel Apps similar to those in the Excel App Store About MrExcel Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks
and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen,
Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will • Dramatically increase your productivity–saving you 50 hours a year or more • Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems • Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have • Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make

612 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 2013

About the author

Bill Jelen is the host of MrExcel.com and the author of 50 books about Microsoft Excel including Pivot Table Data Crunching, Excel Gurus Gone Wild, and Guerrilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel. He writes monthly Excel columns for Strategic Finance magazine.
He has been awarded the MVP in Excel for 10 years by Microsoft.
He has made over 60 guest appearances on TV’s Call for Help with Leo Laporte and was voted guest of the year on the Computer America radio show.
His has produced over 2000 episodes of his daily video podcast Learn Excel from MrExcel.
Before founding MrExcel.com in 1998, Jelen spent twelve years “in the trenches”, as a financial
analyst for the accounting, finance, marketing, and operations departments of a publicly held company. Since then, his company automates Excel reports for hundreds of clients around the world. The website answers over 30,000 questions a year – for free – for
readers all over the world.