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Introduction to Office Scripts Course (2 days)

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Topics covered on this course

  • Getting started

    Subtopics

    1. Creating a new script
    2. The script editor
    3. Writing basic instructions
    4. Running scripts
  • Basic TypeScript code

    Subtopics

    1. The concept of functions
    2. Adding comments
    3. Referencing objects
    4. Applying methods
    5. Writing to the console
  • Getting help

    Subtopics

    1. The Action Recorder
    2. Using sample scripts
    3. Online documentation
  • Saving scripts

    Subtopics

    1. Saving to OneDrive
    2. Sharing scripts in a workbook
    3. Creating buttons
  • Referring to ranges

    Subtopics

    1. Referring to specific cells
    2. Finding the edge of a list
    3. Offsetting a range
    4. Referencing rows and columns
  • Worksheets

    Subtopics

    1. Creating worksheets
    2. Referencing sheets
    3. Deleting sheets
  • Variables

    Subtopics

    1. Var, Let and Const statements
    2. Explicit and inferred types
    3. Referencing variables
    4. Variable scope
    5. Casting values
  • Functions

    Subtopics

    1. Declaring functions
    2. Calling functions
    3. Function parameters
    4. Returning values
  • Conditional statements

    Subtopics

    1. If statements
    2. Testing conditions
    3. Switch statements
  • Loops

    Subtopics

    1. For loops
    2. Do and While loops
    3. For Each loops
    4. Break and Continue statements
    5. Labelled statements
  • Arrays

    Subtopics

    1. Declaring arrays
    2. Populating arrays
    3. For Of loops
    4. Collections and arrays
  • Error-handling

    Subtopics

    1. Exceptions
    2. Try Catch clauses
    3. The Finally block

Topics marked will be covered if time allows.

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Introduction to Office Scripts course dates

The table below lists the Introduction to Office Scripts courses that we currently have scheduled (click on one of the tabs to filter the list).

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Wed/Thu 05-06 February 2025 05-06 Feb 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 17-18 March 2025 17-18 Mar 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 10-11 April 2025 10-11 Apr 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 12-13 May 2025 12-13 May 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 10-11 July 2025 10-11 Jul 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Thu 10-11 September 2025 10-11 Sep 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 10-11 November 2025 10-11 Nov 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

We don't currently have any Introduction to Office Scripts courses scheduled in our London training centre. We may consider adding dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have a handful of like-minded people in your organisation, you could consider booking your own bespoke Introduction to Office Scripts course, whereby you get to pick the dates, training delivery method and venue!

We don't currently have any Introduction to Office Scripts courses scheduled in our Manchester training centre. We may consider adding dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have a handful of like-minded people in your organisation, you could consider booking your own bespoke Introduction to Office Scripts course, whereby you get to pick the dates, training delivery method and venue!

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Wed/Thu 05-06 February 2025 05-06 Feb 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 17-18 March 2025 17-18 Mar 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 10-11 April 2025 10-11 Apr 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 12-13 May 2025 12-13 May 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 10-11 July 2025 10-11 Jul 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Thu 10-11 September 2025 10-11 Sep 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 10-11 November 2025 10-11 Nov 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

About half of our courses are created bespoke for a single organisation, and either delivered onsite (usually somewhere in the UK, but we're willing to travel!) or online. For onsite courses we will usually provide and set up the necessary computers free of charge.

There are four main reasons why you might want to book tailored training like this:

  1. If you have 3 or more people, organising custom training will probably be cheaper than booking people individually onto a scheduled course.
  2. You'll be able to choose the content of any training, and be able to pause it for discussions on how you'll use software internally, or ask to take digressions.
  3. You may not be able to travel to our venues, so it might be easier to ask us to travel to you.
  4. You may not be able to make the dates of our published scheduled courses, and want to be able to choose when your training takes place.

If you'd like a quote for how much a tailored course would cost please let us know what you'd like to achieve and we'll get back to you (normally within half a working day).

What other people have said about our Office Scripts training

Here are some comments we've received about our Office Scripts training . You can see all of our 546 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"The course was really good and really well delivered, as always. The trainer made the whole experience very enjoyable. I was looking for something to replace VBA in the long term. I'm not sure Office Scripts is quite ready to do this yet but I think the groundwork has been laid and I look forward to future developments."

Philip Wood

Macquarie Energy Leasing

About this Introduction to Office Scripts course

Click on one of the tabs below to see the given information about the course.

This two-day course explains how you can write programs in Office Scripts to run in Excel 365 online (analogous to writing macros in VBA to run in Excel on your desktop).  Office Scripts use TypeScript (itself built upon JavaScript) to give you an easy way to automate working with Excel workbooks in the cloud.

Pre-requisites

If you've already written VBA macros in Excel or written programs in languages like JavaScript you'll find this course easier, but neither is a pre-requisite for attendance.

What you'll need to bring

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

  1. A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
  2. A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed.  This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers using our whizzy Wordsworth online training system, and these computers will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

  • For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
  • For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it). We will also ask you whether you want to receive a printed copy of the course manual (and post this to you if you do).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions

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What other Office Scripts courses can I take?▼

Here is a list of all of the Office Scripts courses that we run:

Course name Days
Introduction to Office Scripts (this course) 2 days

What courses do you have related to this one?▼

You might like to consider invesigating these related courses:

Related course Days Level
Advanced Office Scripts 2 days Introduction
Introduction to Power Automate 2 days Introduction

What are your venues for your classroom Office Scripts courses?▼

We run our scheduled classroom training courses in the following venues:

Venue Details
Office Scripts training in London We run our courses in London from the LandMark offices in Bishopsgate, right in the middle of the City (and close to Liverpool Street mainline station).
Office Scripts training in Manchester We run our courses in Manchester from the Holiday Inn business centre, which is a few minutes' walk from Piccadilly station.
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