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Velkata edited this page Jan 16, 2012 · 3 revisions

A brief manual on how include Simple-VBA-functions into your automation excel project.

Download the zip or tar.gz from GitHub: https://github.com/Velkata/Simple-VBA-functions/downloads.

github

Open a new excel workbook.

start menu

Use keys Alt+F11 on your keyboard to open the VBA Editor or you may use the developer tab --> Visual Basic editor icon.

open excel vb editor

In the VBA editor go to menu --> File (Alt+F) --> Import File... --> select the downloaded libSimpleVBAFunc.bas

import module

import module

A new module "Module1" should appear in the project browser.

vb project browser

Select Module1 and go to menu --> View --> Properties Window

menu --> View --> Properties Window

Then in the properties window rename the module from "Module1" to "SimpleVBAfunctions" for example.

Module1

SimpleVBAfunctions

Insert a new module and rename it to "Main" for example.

Insert a new module "Main"

rename it to "Main"

You are ready to start using the functions from the Simple-VBA-functions. For a quick test a below code can be added to the Main sub and executed.

code to be added to the Main

Sub Main() Dim fLog fLog = NewLog() fLog = Log("Hello World!") End Sub

The function NewLog() creates a new workbook sheet named "Log" with three columns "Date","Time" and "Log"

The function Log("Hello World!") appends the text "Hello World!" to the newly created log.

test finished

If you are interested in full excel reporting automation (by using Simple-VBA-functions library and Windows Task Scheduler) you may want to visit this post:http://velin-georgiev-blog.appspot.com/?id=52001

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