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Up and Running with VBA in Microsoft Excel

If you’re spending too much time handling manual tasks in Excel, welcome! This course will teach you how Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) can be used to automate all of those boring jobs that form part of your regular routine.

Intermediate
1h 5m

Created by Mike McQuillan

Last Updated Mar 09, 2026

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Up and Running with VBA in Microsoft Excel

If you’re spending too much time handling manual tasks in Excel, welcome! This course will teach you how Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) can be used to automate all of those boring jobs that form part of your regular routine.

Intermediate
1h 5m

Created by Mike McQuillan

Last Updated Mar 09, 2026

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Limited IT skills? Lots of problems to solve? Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to the rescue! In this course, Up and Running with VBA in Microsoft Excel, you’ll gain the ability to use the VBA language to automate manual processes. First, you’ll explore how VBA integrates with Excel and how to record your own macros. Next, you’ll discover how VBA can help with scripting common tasks, such as data cleansing. Finally, you’ll learn how simple applications can be built within Excel to improve your business processes. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Excel VBA needed to build repeatable processes and save yourself hours of time!

Up and Running with VBA in Microsoft Excel
Intermediate
1h 5m
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Mike McQuillan - Pluralsight course - Up and Running with VBA in Microsoft Excel
Mike McQuillan
15 courses 4.5 author rating 610 ratings

Mike loves to mess around with data and programming problems, the bigger the better. He’s worked with a variety of companies, helping to build and improve systems of all shapes and sizes.

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