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Advanced VBA Training Course

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,525

Classroom (Manchester)
£1,150

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£995

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

Delegates should have good knowledge of either Access Visual Basic, Excel Visual Basic or Word Visual Basic. To attend this course, you should already know the answers to these questions:

How to use input and message boxes.
How to write IF conditions and loops.
How to create and use variables (including the use of OPTION EXPLICIT).
How to select cells (including using OFFSET and END) in Excel.

If you haven't attended our two-day Excel VBA introduction course or been using VBA for at least 6 months, you're likely to struggle on this course.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Advanced VBA course dates:

Dates	Times	Venue	Price (excl. VAT)
05-06 Feb	09:30-16:30	Online	£995	Book
01-02 Apr	09:30-16:30	Online	£995	Book
04-05 Jun	09:30-16:30	Online	£995	Book
04-05 Aug	09:30-16:30	Online	£995	Book
01-02 Oct	09:30-16:30	Online	£995	Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Advanced VBA training course contents

If you've learnt the basics of VBA, maybe it's time to move on to the advanced level? This two-day course explains how objects, properties, methods and collections REALLY work, how to loop over collections, how to reference other applications (so you can manipulate objects in Outlook from within Excel, for example) and how to add, edit and delete rows in a database or elements in an array.

In addition to all of the above, the course will give a basic introduction to using classes in VBA. Don't expect to get a complete understanding, however, as this is a subject which it takes years to get to grips with fully!

The contents of this course are as follows:

Revision of VBA

Objects and collections
Methods and properties
Using object variables
Looping over collections

Links to other applications

Referencing other applications
Instantiating objects
Writing inter-application code

FileSystemObjects

Referencing FileSystemObjects
Working with files and folders

FileDialogs

Using FileDialogs
Allowing multiple selection

Working with text files

Avoiding using INPUT/OUTPUT
Reading and writing text files

Class modules

What is a class?
Designing classes
Creating properties and methods
Consuming classes

Advanced class modules topics if time

Untyped collections
Creating typed collections
Creating event sinks

Linking to data

ADO or Access Database Engine
Referencing the right library
Opening and using recordsets

Arrays

Creating and populating arrays
Dynamic arrays
The PRESERVE keyword

Passing arguments

ByRef and ByVal
Using optional arguments
Using ParamArray

Functions

Declaring functions
Passing arguments

Advanced programming ideas if time

Using functions in code
Recursive programming
Enumerations

Working with shapes if time

Adding shapes
Positioning shapes
Formatting shapes

Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
551 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

Proper restaurant lunch included

And some benefits specific to online training:

Courseware manual posted to you in advance
Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"Our trainer provided a clear structure for the 2 days and made what is complicated, easy to understand. He answered questions about our own data whilst delivering all the material."

Matthew Fielding (Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG))

"Really enjoyed the course, it had a very good structure and our Trainer was top-class!"

Matt Hemming (Liquid Logic (System C))

"I have been struggling with SQL since being given the task and trying to keep up with my colleagues. This was a very informative course, easy to follow and the trainer was very patient and knowledgeable."

Gaynor Garside-Gee (Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust)

"This course was exactly what I needed to get up to speed on PowerBI, and I now feel confident in working with it in my role. The offer of continued help from the trainer if we were to e-mail was greatly appreciated too. I had never used PowerBI before and needed something that took me from newbie to reasonable user in a short timeframe, and this ticked all the boxes."

Scot Hickinbottom (Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust)

"An amazing trainer, made the session really engaging and personalised the course to my needs. Even though there was only me on the course, I was able to pay attention and really enjoyed the session."

Amy Adams (Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

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:

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

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

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).

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!

What you won't need

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, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

familiarise yourself with the set-up;
meet your trainer; and
get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

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.

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