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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)
£1,450

Classroom (Manchester)
£1,095

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£950

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 Dec	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
03-04 Feb	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
01-02 Apr	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
04-05 Jun	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
04-05 Aug	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	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
547 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:

"The course was excellent and easy to follow. A great trainer and a really nice down to earth man which made the course enjoyable and fun. I would highly recommend Wise Owl training to anyone as this is now my 3rd completed course and everything about it has been great from start to finish. We were tying to learn SQL on YouTube using Wise Owl tutorials. We thought that they looked good so decided to give you a go. Glad we did!"

Lindsey Reed (Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service)

"Booking and course information were all communicated well. The venue and pace was good. There was a lot of content to cover (re-caps were most welcomed). The trainer showed patience throughout and was able to answer all questions."

Vicky Kearney (Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA))

"The training session was a bit of an eye opener for me in terms of what can be done behind the scenes in Power BI e.g., with data cleaning and setting up parameters. Even though I am already interested in learning this stuff, I imagine it would be easy to deliver that kind of material in a very monotonous and uninteresting way, but the presentation style was really fun and lively which made it a lot easier I think to absorb the lessons. It’s also great to have paper copies of the manuals! Thanks again and I hope to take you up on your offer of sending queries your way, I am sure I will."

Simon Hayes (Hounslow Council)

"This course was very useful and helpful for the work that we will be undertaking at the council in the future. Our trainer was very knowledgeable, very helpful and delivered the course at a very good pace. He was able to answer any questions I had and was able to advise on how we are using the system for our performance data. Will definitely be doing another course with you in the future. I have previously done the Introduction to SQL course, so wanted to expand my knowledge further and learn how I could implement all the different techniques into our own system. I will be exploring the Power BI courses once we are in a position to do so."

Scott Lea (City of Lincoln Council)

"All good from my point of view, very happy with the training provided again. Have used Wise Owl for a number of courses now, always engaging trainers with good content so was happy to use again."

John Ensor (Montanaro Asset Management Ltd)

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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