VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications and allows users to automate tasks in Microsoft Excel like generating reports, preparing charts and graphs, and doing calculations. It helps save time by automating repetitive steps. VBA can be used for both personal and business tasks like creating macros for routine personal tasks or building powerful programs for analyzing large amounts of data or creating complex financial models. The basics of VBA include variables, arithmetic operators, logical operators, and enabling the developer tab in Excel to access the VBA editor.

1. What is VBA?
• VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications. It is a combination
of the Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual
Basic with Microsoft Office Applications such as Microsoft Excel.
• VBA enables you to automate various activities in Excel like
generating reports, preparing charts & graphs, doing calculations,
etc. This automation activity is also often referred as Macro. This
way it helps users to save their time spent behind running the
repetitive steps.

2. Uses of VBA
Personal & Business Applications of VBA in Excel
• For personal use, you can use it for simple macros that will
automate most of your routine tasks.
• For business use, you can create complete powerful programs
powered by excel and VBA. The advantage of this approach is you
can leverage the powerful features of excel in your own custom
programs.
• Analyze huge amounts of data
• Finance professionals, such as portfolio managers, financial
analysts, traders, and investment bankers often need to deal with
large volumes of data.

3. Create and maintain complex models
• Finance professionals can also use VBA to create trading,
pricing, and risk management models.
Create investment scenarios
• Investment bankers and financial analysts often need to make
decisions by comparing two or more investment scenarios. For
example, in mergers and acquisitions, finance professionals must
consider the financial impact of the merger to determine if it is
feasible.

4. Basics of VBA
Variable –where x = 1 and y = 3. In this expression, x and y are
variables. They can be assigned any numbers i.e. 1 and 3 respective as
in this example. Variables in short are memory locations.
Rules for creating variables
• Don't use reserved words
• Variable names cannot contain spaces
• Use descriptive names

5.  Arithmetic operators - The rules of Brackets of Division
Multiplication Addition and Subtraction (BODMAS) apply so
remember to apply them when working with expressions that
use multiple different arithmetic operators. Just like in excel,
you can use
o + for addition
o - for subtraction
o * for multiplication
o / for division.

6. Logical operators –
These include
o If statements
o OR
o NOT
o AND
o TRUE
o FALSE
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7. Step by Step process to enable the Developer tab
The step by step process on how to enable the developer tab in
Excel:
• Create a new workbook
• Click on the ribbon start button
• Select options
• Click on customize ribbon
• Select the developer checkbox as shown in the image below
• Click OK

8. • Enable Developer Option
• To execute VBA program, you have to have access to developer
Excel. Enable the developer option as shown in the below Excel
example and pin it into your main ribbon in Excel.
• Step 1)Go to main menu "FILE"
• Select option "Options."

10. • Step 2) Now another window will open, in that window do following
things
• Click on Customize Ribbon
• Mark the checker box for Developer option
• Click on OK button

12. • Step 3) Developer Tab
• You will now be able to see the DEVELOPER tab in the ribbon

13. • Step 4 − Click the 'Visual Basic' button to open the VBA Editor.

14. • Step 5 − Start scripting by adding a button. Click Insert → Select the
button.

15. • Step 6 − Perform a right-click and choose 'properties'.

16. • Step 7 − Edit the name and caption as shown in the following
screenshot.

17. Step 8 − Now double-click the button and the sub-procedure outline will
be displayed as shown in the following screenshot.

18. • Step 9 − Start coding by simply adding a message.
• Step 10 − Click the button to execute the sub-procedure. The output
of the sub-procedure is shown in the following screenshot. Make
sure that you do have design mode turned on. Simply click it to turn
it on if it is not on.