How to Create & Use Excel Macros (Real world example)

Unleash the power of Excel Macros and say goodbye to repetitive tasks like copying data, creating reports, or updating formats. This beginner-friendly tutorial guides you through automating these tasks with just a click!

👨‍💻 Essentials of Excel Macros:
▪️ Why Use Macros: Ideal for automating routine Excel tasks.
▪️ Recording a Macro: Learn to record Macros either using the bottom status bar or the Developer tab. Remember, every click counts while recording!
▪️ Creating Dynamic Selections: Use keyboard shortcuts like Control + Shift + Down/Right to make your Macro adaptable to different data lengths.
▪️ Editing Macro Code: Dive into Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to fine-tune your Macros, like dynamically changing chart titles.
▪️ Adding Error Checks: Incorporate 'IF' conditions in VBA to avoid errors when running Macros on different sheets.
▪️ Saving Macros: Remember to save your workbook as a Macro-Enabled file (.xlsm) to retain the Macro functions.

In this video you'll learn the basics of Macros and VBA in Excel. Plus you learn all of this in 10 minutes! Macros allow you to automate repetitive tasks in Excel. I'll show you how to to enable the Developer Tab, which allows you to record and run macros. We'll do an example on how to automatically create and format an Excel chart based on a dataset. This dataset has different ranges so we want to record the macro in such a way that its dynamic depending on the size of the data. You'll learn to avoid a common mistake when referencing ranges in Excel. Instead of hardcoding a certain data range with excel macros we'll use dynamic cell referencing.
I'll show you what the macro recorder can record and which actions you have to add yourself to the visual basic editor. I'll add an example by using the IF statement in VBA and also referencing a range for the chart title. Learn how to save your spreadsheet so you can access your Excel macros again in the future.

00:00 Excel Macro Tutorial for Beginners
01:12 How to Record a Macro in Excel
06:36 How to Manually Adjust Code in Visual Basic Editor
07:33 Add IF Condition to Avoid Errors
09:10 How to Save Excel Workbook With Macro
09:34 Wrap Up

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[benjaminkeyrose]

One of the things that differentiates you from the rest is that you point out the "little" but very important steps in between the "major" steps. This saves so much time when first learning, because you can get the major steps right, but if you mess up a little step it won't work ( and being new to the material, likely won't know why it's not working). Kudos for another superb tutorial!

[andregurule]

Great video. Your teaching style is exceptional. I’ve been using macros for almost 20 years and they have enabled me to provide better support to the teams I have worked with. Macros have also played a big part in helping our current small team to be more efficient and handle a larger workload. I’m really interested to check out your course. Since I’m mostly self taught, I’m sure there is a lot I can learn. I’m also hoping that I can get some of my coworkers to take the course as well.

[gambu]

You're the best thing to ever happen to YouTube. Thank you so much Leila. Love from South Africa ❤️🇿🇦

[anoopnair]

Thanks Leila I realized that in order to survive the ever demanding skillset required for a job as I had literally zero knowledge in macros till now...this video is definitely a starting point and looking forward to excel in it...looking forward many more macro videos

[justintipper]

I have always found your video tutorials to be exceptionally good. What I don't understand is how can a video this good be viewed over a million times but only get 20k Likes. Some of us appreciate you. Cheers Leila

[asegidshawel]

I can't tell how much I love you! You're are awesome in revealing new secrets about excel, keep doing that! We love you!

[doreensarcone]

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial AND all your other videos.
I plan on taking your course.
I went on a job interview on Friday and you were highly recommended by the interviewer for me to be best prepared for the job!
Looking forward to catching up on all you offer!

[tom_something]

Watching this video helped me learn macros in ten minutes. So from now on, I can learn macros in a single click.

[shajidaniel]

Your courses are just amazing and detailed, which helps in easy understanding, in fact I have even shared your link with a couple of people within my office who work on Data. Thanks again.

[bernardsanke]

Thank you so much, Leila. You certainly solved a mystery for me (as an amateur), and am so glad I stumbled across this superb tutorial.

[hussainakhtar]

I used VBA and macros some years back. I am back to update my sklls and your videos are really helping alot... thans Leila :)

[lalitthapa]

Your excel VBA course is amazing Leila, I really learnt a lot & even designed some VBA macros for my company... a big thank you !!

[nikkisharma]

This is the best video I've seen for macros creation, it wasn't overloaded with information and to the point

[doru]

Thank you for all the video tutorials made, you explain them so well that even a "Tarzan" like me can understand them.

[javedshakir]

I am so glad to see her on this platform. She is a great teacher. 💯

[silverlicious]

Very good demonstration Leila. I use VBA code in almost all my projects. I can't do without it anymore as it really unlocks the power of Excel.

[fernandamembrive]

Just bought your VBA course. Thanks for your amazing videos.

[mattschoular]

Thanks Leila. Like many others, I find macros challenging. I don't use them enough to warrant spending a bunch if time "deep diving" into them, but tips like these are helpful. Thanks for the video.

[nutknowledge]

This is great. I've always limited my macro usage because I was unaware of the "dynamic" option...my life will now change, thank you!

[richardbaron]

Not being VBA fluent, I nearly always use the macro recorder to start and then clean up the code afterwards. This is a great intro-to-macros video and I wish more excel users automated their work.