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VBA Training Courses

We're experts in VBA, but also know how to train small classes (maximum 6 people) in a friendly way, whether in a classroom setting or online.

We currently run the following scheduled VBA courses:

Excel VBA Advanced VBA 3-day fast-track VBA

Not exactly the course contents you want? Why not consider organising your own tailored VBA course)?

More about our Visual Basic for Applications training

For the vast majority of people we'd recommend that you book onto our two-day Introduction to Excel VBA course - even if you already know some VBA.

Although this course is aimed at absolute beginners, we've often found that the people who get the most out of it have a bit of VBA experience.

The course will show you how to write structured VBA programs, including comments and indentation. Programs like this, in fact:

Sub SelectFirstEmptyCell()

'go to the right worksheet

Worksheets("Owls").Select

'go to the top cell

Range("A1").Select

'go to the bottom cell, then one further

ActiveCell.End(xlDown).Select

ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select

'write in an owl name

ActiveCell.Value = "Flappy Owl"

End Sub

If you're worried that this course would be too basic for you, ask yourself these questions:

Do you know what Option Explicit means?
Do you know when you would use the word SET to assign a variable value?
Do you know what objects, collections, methods and properties are?
Do you know how to use FOR EACH ... NEXT to loop over collections?

If the answer to all of these is yes, have a look at our advanced VBA course. This will show you how to work with other applications (among many other things). For example, the following code would delete any Excel files in the current folder:

Sub DeleteExcelWorkbooks()

'new container for working with files

Dim fso As New FileSystemObject

Dim fil As File

Dim fol As Folder

'get reference to a folder

Set fol = fso.GetFolder("c:\wise owl\")

'loop over files in current folder

For Each fil In fol.Files

If LCase(Right(fil.Name, 5)) = ".xlsx" Then

'delete all Excel workbooks

fil.Delete

End If

Next fil

End Sub

If you're interested, this creates a reference to the Microsoft Scripting Runtime object library. If you want to understand how to do this (and what that sentence means), book on the course!

Finally (for people who are short on time but quick learners) we have a fast-track VBA course which combines the contents of our introductory and advanced VBA courses in an intensive three days. You can get even more help on choosing the right VBA course for you here.

10 things our courses include

Each of our scheduled courses (whether classroom or online) includes:

Small course sizes - we have a maximum of 6 people on each classroom or online course.
A trainer! And not just anyone - our courses are only ever given by full-time Wise Owls.
Full colour courseware and exercises of oustanding quality.
A no cancellation guarantee (once you've booked and confirmed your training course, it will run).
A one gigabyte USB stick, containing course files, answers to exercises and (by the end of the course) your answers too, together with a nice pen.
Unofficial help after the course (although we don't have a dedicated post-course support line, in practice trainers will be happy to answer the odd ad hoc question after a course has taken place).
A certificate sent out digitally or in paper form (your choice) after each course, together with (for tailored courses) the trainer's thoughts on how the course went.

In addition, our classroom courses also include:

A computer for each delegate (obviously).
Lunch out each day at a local restaurant (chosen on the day of the course, after discussion!).
Unlimited refreshments during the day, including Tassimo or Nespresso coffee and a range of biscuits and snacks to keep you going through those dark afternoon hours.

Still not convinced? You can read hundreds of testimonials to the quality of our training (all attributed and added in the last 3 years.

Scheduled VBA training dates

Here are the next VBA courses we have scheduled:

Course	Dates	Days	Venue	Price	Booking
Excel VBA macros	Thu/Fri 09-10 January 2025	09-10 Jan	2	Online	£995	Book places
Advanced VBA	Wed/Thu 05-06 February 2025	05-06 Feb	2	Online	£995	Book places
Excel VBA macros	Mon/Tue 10-11 February 2025	10-11 Feb	2	Online	£995	Book places
Fast track Excel VBA	Wed/Fri 12-14 February 2025	12-14 Feb	3	Online	£1,350	Book places
Excel VBA macros	Tue/Wed 11-12 March 2025	11-12 Mar	2	Online	£995	Book places

All prices exclude VAT. If you can't see the dates you want, don't forget that you always have the option of arranging onsite training at your offices (we'll even provide the computers and projector).

About our VBA training

Wise Owl are VBA gurus! We've been teaching businesses how to automate routine tasks using Excel macros for many years, and many of our internal systems are written in VBA too. Here are a few examples:

Application	Notes
This website	We use a suite of VBA modules and forms within SharePoint Designer to automate writing HTML for many pages of our website.
Our manuals	We create our manuals using Microsoft Word, with a host of routines written in VBA to automate content creation.
Scheduling courses	Our course scheduler in Excel uses VBA macros for common tasks like creating a calendar and scheduling new dates.
Website management	Our website CMS system is written in Access (with SQL Server as a back-end), using VBA throughout.

Oh, and did we mention that programming in VBA is really satisfying? Well, when it works it is ...

Other Visual Basic for Applications training resources

There are many ways in which we can help you learn VBA!

Exercises

To continue the spirit of transparency, we've published all of our Excel VBA exercises online.

Excel VBA exercises

Advanced VBA exercises

Blogs

We've blogged extensively on Visual Basic for Applications macros - mainly for Excel, but also for Access and other MS Office applications.

VBA blogs

Blogs on VBA within Excel

Self-paced online training

As well as (or instead of) attending our VBA course in the UK, you could instead follow our online training course.

Online course in VBA

Videos

Watch our series of videos showing you how to program in VBA, including creating user forms.

VBA for Excel

VBA Tips

User forms

Pivot tables and charts

Charts

Advanced VBA

Files/folders

References

Outlook

Built-in functions

ADO.NET

Scraping websites

Working with shapes

Classes and structures

Tutorials and Tips

Have a look at our VBA full tutorials, as well as our shorter tips and tricks.

VBA tutorials

VBA tips

Training venues

Our VBA courses run in the following locations.

VBA training in Manchester

VBA macro training in London

Onsite VBA training (UK)

Courseware manuals

You can sample or license the following courseware manuals.

Introducton to Excel VBA

Advanced VBA macros

Fast-track VBA

Test your skills

Assess your knowledge of Visual Basic for Applications programming.

How well do you know Excel VBA?

Consultancy

No one knows VBA like Wise Owl, and no other company has the same ability to write complex systems AND then explain how they work.

VBA consultancy

Books or publications

If you're trying to teach yourself VBA, you might find the following book useful.

Introduction to Excel VBA

Introduction to VBA in Excel

Excel VBA book

Excel VBA introduction

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