Choose " Excel macro-enabled workbook" from the " Save as type" drop-down list and click the Save button. Press Crl + S, then click the " No" button in the " The following features cannot be saved in macro-free workbook" warning dialog.
These lines, as their names suggest, turn off screen refresh and recalculating the workbook's formulas before running the macro.Īfter the code is executed, everything is turned back on.
Copy the VBA code (from a web-page etc.) and paste it to the right pane of the VBA editor (" Module1" window).Right-click on your workbook name in the " Project-VBAProject" pane (at the top left corner of the editor window) and select Insert -> Module from the context menu.
Press Alt + F11 to open Visual Basic Editor (VBE).
Feel free to study this step-by-step guide to be able to use the code you found:įor this example, we are going to use a VBA macro to remove line breaks from the current worksheet. However, your knowledge of VBA leaves much to be desired. You googled a lot and found a VBA macro that solves your task. Suppose you need to change your data in some way. We use Excel as a tool for processing our applied data. So, we may not know all specificities of calling this or that option, and we cannot tell the difference between VBA execution speed in Excel 2019, 2016, 20. Most people like me and you are not real Microsoft Office gurus.
However, this approach would not require any of the new objects.This is a short step-by-step tutorial for beginners showing how to add VBA code (Visual Basic for Applications code) to your Excel workbook and run this macro to solve your spreadsheet tasks. To fill in custom columns, and so on, followed by refreshing connections that use these parameters. VBA will be used to set parameters for Power Query to use (file path from a file dialog box (after file validation), language in use, additional data In the end, I'll probably build out most of the conversion logic in Power Query, independently of VBA. validating theĬSV file), but these scenarios can generate error conditions that can't be handled in VBA. There is other logic that Power Query can handle (e.g. determining which column in a lookup table to select based on the Excel user language (either French or English). There is much logic that could potentially be shifted to PQ (e.g.
My hope is to replace SQL queries with Power Query The conversion heavily depends on SQL queries (using lookup tables stored in worksheets). I have a significant VBA project that converts data in CSV files from one data format to another. One shouldn't need VBA to accomplish copying queries from one workbook to another. You should be able to select either a group name, multiple query names (or both), right click, select Copy to.
However, this process is a royal P.I.T.A. I open a file, select one query at a time, and paste into a blank query in Power Query (I've put the Blank Query option is on the QuickĪccess Toolbar (QAT), because I use it so often). Currently, I maintain multiple text files that group related queries. What you describe is a very common scenario for me.