Need To Hire a VBA Consultant?

• VBA consultants are professional, often there to help choose a solution that works for your business
• Offer support by evaluating your businesses goals and aligning a project to this.
• Process efficiency is at the forefront of a VBA consultant during planning and testing
• Adds value through cost reduction and minimising errors to strengthen information flow
• Uses business scenarios to combine the development stage with full implementation

• Create macros
• User forms
• Pivot tables
• Spreadsheet extensions
• Other background work such as an API
• Creates front-end user interfaces
• Automated scripts

A VBA developer tends to have broad expertise in Excel, with a focus on efficiency and automation of repetitive tasks.

If you are searching for a VBA consultant to help start a Microsoft Office project, consult on streamlining an existing application or any other excel VBA tasks, the Excel Experts are here to help you take that first step.

Alternatively, we also have a great team of Excel programmers who can assist you with any of the tasks mentioned above, whether that’s fixing a VBA error or user form, creating in-depth reports or pivot tables, or improving an outdated user interface – give us a call today to chat with an excel expert.

Before pursuing the advice of a VBA consultant, it may be worth considering the following so you can develop a strategy from beginning to end.

1. The impact it may have on your business. When planning an Excel or VBA project, think about how this can affect your business, its employees and current processes or software that may be interrupted.
2. Time. Any project is normally time-sensitive. You should realistically discuss any time constraints you may have before hiring a VBA consultant.
3. Learning opportunities. A VBA project may offer a learning tool to you or your staff. Although many VBAs are automated through the use of macros, there could be an element of training involved.
4. Future-proofing. Once a project is up and running, it may occur that your application requires error prevention, or documentation (such as instructions). A good VBA consultant can help you ‘future-proof’ a tool or project by outlining exactly how everything works.
5. Your expectations. Before hiring a VBA consultant, your team should be fully aware of what you’re looking to achieve from the project or application. It’s advisable that everyone has a clear understanding before any work is begun on an Excel VBA project.

These are just some criteria to consider when planning an excel VBA project so make sure you plan out all these points and more before contacting us at The Excel Experts!

VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications. It is a programming language built into Microsoft Office and is commonly used in Excel. You can create macros to automate repetitive word- and data-processing functions and generate custom forms, graphs, and reports.

Macros are used to automate tedious tasks such as applying styling and formatting, manipulating data and text, communicating with data sources such as a database, creating and edit new, or existing documents and adding functionality to a spreadsheet or workbook.

Creating and running a macro is a powerful method to automate many tasks and are used in applications across many industries such as financing, sales and the service industry to name a few examples.

Macros can also be used to create custom logic to save time on predictable or repetitive tasks.

A VBA consultant can advise your business on a wide range of solutions, but what real-life scenarios can the Excel Experts help with?

Below are some very common methods on how utilising a VBA macro can automate simple tasks, these might include:

• Adding or auto-fitting the size of multiple columns and rows
• Manipulate headers and footers, using formulas such as date and time
• Finding duplicates from a specific selection of data
• Filtering and sorting values
• Highlighting alternate rows, cells with comments, misspelt words or other errors
• Selecting maximum or minimum values in a data set or range
• Printing certain selections or ranges, or defining margins or custom pages
• Hiding, deleting or protecting active worksheets
• Resizing charts
• Protecting cells with formulas
• Save worksheets as a pdf, or other file formats
• Copying and inserting cells, rows or columns into other worksheets or documents
• Creating messages
• Create, auto-update or refresh pivot tables
• Manipulate chart data such as titles, pasting charts or changing the chart type
• Convert formulas into values
• Remove spacing or characters from a range of cells etc
• Character changes such as lower case to upper case and vice versa

These are just a few of the massive amounts of automation a macro is capable of. The list really is endless, and this is where an experienced VBA consultant can come in and work with you to plan a strategy, implement it and really start to automate your business.