5: Visual Basic We come to the most powerful feature Excel has to offer: Visual Basic. That's right, Visual Basic. I know what you're thinking -- you're far too advanced for Visual Basic, right?

Launch Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic Express. Open the project file in which you want to create a module and command button that creates an Excel spreadsheet from selected data.

Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code.

Duration: 24 minutes, 44 seconds For each tutorial lesson, there are both a Visual Basic and a C# version available. The Express Edition betas are currently available for download through MSDN lab.

And although VBA is installed by default, accessing the Visual Basic Editor (VBE), through which you’ll enter your VBA code, doesn’t automatically appear in the Ribbon.