Microsoft Excel is more than just a spreadsheet. Dubai or UAE companies in general can benefit a lot in using Excel. Two (2) of the advanced features of Excel and other Microsoft Office Applications are the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
Too many repetitive encoding, generating and formatting of complex reports in Excel and other Microsoft Office Applications needed by companies in Dubai and UAE can be automated by using Visual Basic Editor (VBE) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
Visual Basic Editor (VBE) is the interface used to write Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) which is then the programming language used to create advanced solutions or tools in Excel and other Microsoft Office Applications.
The following are only some of the advanced solutions or tools that can be built or made available within Excel or other Microsoft Office Applications through VBA:
- A solution or tool to connect to the external enterprise database to retrieve data that will be used for in-dept analysis to increase sales and profit
- A solution or tool that will generate graphical charts using the data retrieved from an external database.
- A solution to summarize huge data, then format and then generate presentable reports
- A solution that calculates financial data in Excel and then sent to Management via Outlook.
- A solution where the interfaces are in Microsoft Office Excel and maintenance of databases is in Micorosoft Office