11. visual basic macro recorder
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11. Visual Basic Macro Recorder. Open Excel. Click File -> Save As. Save As a Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook. Click File -> Options. Click Customize Ribbon. Tick Developer. Click OK. Select Developer menu. Macro Recorder. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
11. Visual BasicMacro Recorder
Open Excel
Click File -> Save As
Save As a Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook
Click File -> Options
Click Customize Ribbon
Tick Developer
Click OK
Select Developer menu
Macro Recorder
• A job may require you to do the same repetitive task every day in Excel
• You can make Excel complete some of these tasks automatically by recording a macro
• All you have to do to repeat the action is to click a button
Formatting Cells
• If you are creating tables of results you may need to format them in a particular way e.g. font, border, background
• Rather than doing each step repeatedly we can record the actions once, and then make Excel repeat them
Type in this table of information
Highlight these cells
Click Record Macro
Macro name: Format TableShortcut key: Ctrl+o
Click OK
Every action we take from now on will be recorded until we click Stop Recording
Right-click with mouse and select Format Cells
Click Font and select Times New Roman,Bold, Size 14 and Colour Dark Blue
Click Border and then the Double Lines
Select Top and Bottom borders
Click OK
Click Stop Recording
Click Visual Basic
Select Module 1
Excel has recorded all of the tasks which you have just completed, and written a program
You can make changes to this program by typing into the script
Click Close
Type in the following table
Highlight the new table
Press Ctrl + oThis is the shortcut key we assigned to our macro
The macro is run and all of the tasks are completed automatically
Challenge
• Go into Visual Basic editor• Change the Font Name to “Verdana”• Change the Font Style to “Italic”• Change the Font Size to 12• Save and Close the Visual Basic editor• Select the table again and press Ctrl+o to
reformat the table
Trial and Error
• The best way to learn specific commands in Visual Basic is to use the Macro Recorder
• You can look at the code that is generated and then try to make some changes
Stock Screener
• By using some creativity you can create complex programs using Visual Basic
• In the following example we will download data from Yahoo Finance, and then filter it to find companies with a low P/E ratio
Select Sheet 2
Click Record Macro
Type Macro name: StockScreenerShortcut key: Ctrl + l
Click OK
Click Data -> Import From Text
Type in the following web addresshttp://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=MSFT+GOOG&f=snpryv
Click Open
Click Cancel if any passwords are requested
Click Next
The original data is separated by commas so tick Comma
Click Next
Click Finish
Click OK
Click Cancel if any password is requested
Imports the data which we asked for
Select cell A1
Select Insert -> Insert Sheet Rows
Type in the following headings
Select Column D
Click Data -> Filter
Click on Dropdown box, then Number Filters -> Less Than …
Choose PE less than 20 and click OK
Filters data to show companies with a P/E less than 20
Click Developer -> Stop Recording
Click Visual Basic
View the code for the stock screener
We can edit which companies we want to download by changing the ticker symbols
Replace MSFT+GOOG withAXP+DIS+GE+KO+MCD+PFE
Click Save and Close
Select Sheet 3
Press Ctrl+l to run macro with new companies
Shows which companies have a P/E under 20
Challenge• Create a new sheet
• Edit the Visual Basic code to download information for the following tickers:– INTC– JNJ– JPM– KO– XOM
• Change the filter criteria to select companies with a dividend yield less than 3