About this blog

Story – How it all started

I was working as a Software Test engineer in one of the leading Indian IT firms in Bangalore. I started my career as a Manual Tester. And not liking manual testing was no exception. The first project that I was involved in had to deal with lots of Management and Project data handling resulting in lots of Excel sheets and numerous trackers. Back in 2007, I was not even introduced to “Excel Macros” or “Excel VBA”.

To be honest, I used to get surprised seeing the automated stuff in excels with a click of buttons. My assumption was that these were Microsoft customizations available. Out of my curiosity, I asked one of my senior and he showed me the code behind those buttons. That was my first interaction with VBA.

That was another surprise… Oh my god, behind those excels sheets there was another place where you can write so many lines of code? I was amazed and started going through those existing “trackers” in my project and codes behind them. Took help from Microsoft Excel help and Google. In no time I was so fascinated and developed so much of interest that I used to wait for my office hours to get over so that I could start reading more and more about macros. And in no time I built my first macro.

As time progressed I had built many useful tools in excel for my project and my learning and creativity curve rose since then 
A fine day it occurred to me to start a blog and publish these small pieces of codes and tools that I had and which might also help others users, especially beginners like me. I, then, created a blog on Google’s Blogspot.com.

Later that year, I registered a domain with the name which came first into my mind “LearnExcelMacro.com”. This is how this domain was born. I initially started posting code snippets, tips and tricks related to Excel and Excel VBA.
And today, you can find numerous helpful tools, articles, videos, VBA book for beginners.

My partner in crime… Shagun, she supports me in all way to do this