Excel Macro Tutorial : How to write Excel Macro – Your First Excel Macro

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Excel Macro Beginner

Dear Readers,

Till now we have learnt following things in Excel Macro Tutorial . In this part of Tutorial you are going to learn how to open the VBE Code Window in Visual Basic Editor of your Workbook and start writing your first macro.

1. What is Excel Macro ?
2. How to Record Macro / How to Run Macro
3. Add Developer Tab in Excel – 2007 and 2010

4. Visual Basic Editor in Excel

5. How to add different types of controls like Text Box, Radio button, button etc. in Excel
6. VBA Control Property

You have got all the basic concept about Excel Macro. So now I will show you, how you can start writing Excel Macros.
Example: You are going to write your first Excel Macro. By running that Excel Macro you will add the Value of Cell A1 and A2 and multiply that Sum with the Value of Cell A3. Store this Result in Cell A4. This is your requirement to write Macros.

Follow the below Steps, to write your first Excel Macro an Achieve the above mentioned requirement

Step 1.First go to Visual Basic Editor of your workbook (How to open Visual Basic Editor??)
Step 2.Double Click on the Sheet Name under VBA Project in right side of the Visual Basic Editor.
Step 3. Copy and Paste the below Code in the Code Window

Sub My_First_Macro()
Range("A4").Value = (Range("A1").Value + Range("A2").Value) * Range("A3").Value
End Sub

My First Simple Macro

Step 4. In the A1, A2 and A3, you have entered 25, 30 and 4 respectively.

My First Simple Macro

Step 5.Now after running the above macro, Sum of A1 and A2 should be multiplied with A3 and result must be stored in A4.

Step 6.Now Click on the Run Button to Run the Written Macro.

My First Simple Macro

Step 7.Click on Run

My First Simple Macro

Step 7.After running the Macro, See the Result.

My First Simple Macro

Congratulations you have run and tested you first macro.

Step 7.Now go to your Sheet and Enter some Other Values as Input and Press Alt+F8

My First Simple Macro

Step 8.Now Result is changed after running the Macro.

My First Simple Macro

Happy Macro Writing…. 🙂 🙂

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Shagun on February 21, 2012 at 2:35 pm

Hi Vishwa,

I tried this and got through 🙂 🙂

Also, when we run a macro, what do we mean by selecting the option "All open workbooks" from the dropdown.

For an instance, i have put the values for A1, A2, A3 in all the 3 sheets in the excel but it worked for only 1st sheet?
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- Vishwamitra Mishra on February 21, 2012 at 2:57 pm
  
  Hi Shagun,
  
  While running a Macro, if you select the option “All open workbooks”, then it will list down all the Macros which are there in all the Workbooks. You can select any one of them and Run it.
  
  Your second question is not clear. Can you please me explain it in detail?
  Reply
- Deepak on December 9, 2014 at 11:33 am
  
  you have to go on individual sheet and then you have to run macro.
  Reply
nishant on February 22, 2013 at 11:42 am

Very nice walkthrough. Thanks a ton
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sohan on October 4, 2014 at 11:54 am

please suggest any easy helping book and link for macros and vba
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Ashish on October 20, 2014 at 6:41 pm

Thanks ……… do you have any practice for beginers
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Hemanth on December 9, 2014 at 12:47 pm

Awesome Exercise and material. Thanks a lot
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LakshmiNarayana on May 10, 2016 at 2:17 am

Hi Vishwamitra,
I appreciate for Knowledge transfer.
My question is this is stick for particular cell,so if I want this for code will reflect entire cells.as well other sheets how to do.

Please respond for this question.
Regards,
Lakshmi
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Shanoji on August 23, 2016 at 6:51 am

Hi,

I am a beginner, and if want to share excel reports to multiple email address from one dump. Can we use macro?
IF yes, please help me how to do that?
it takes a lot of manual work when I do it. If possible in macro it’ll be really helpful to reduce work time.
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thinhvd on November 17, 2017 at 1:44 am

Shortcut Alt+F11 to chang view VBA window and Excel window
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- Vishwamitra Mishra on November 22, 2017 at 4:39 pm
  
  Thanks 🙂
  Reply