Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications

LT Craig Maxey

ContextAnalyst’s are constantly tasked with an excess of work. Programming capabilities introduced to the analyst community will elevate the efficacy of their work.

PurposeIntroduce analysts to the capabilities and functionality of a powerful programming platform resident on each of their machines

OutcomeWill provide analysts an overview of capabilities if they choose to increase their knowledge of Excel VBA

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Overview

IntroductionCapabilitiesMacro’sIntegrated Development EnvironmentData TypesRange ObjectsIterative ProgrammingPractice

Capabilities

ApplicationsHEDIS Opportunity Tool

Data ManipulationPEB Data ManipulationFit To Fill Workflow

Data CleanupM2 Data cleanup

ApplicationsHEDIS Opportunity Tool

PEB Data Manipulation

PEB Data Manipulation (Cont.)

M2 Data Cleanup

Macro’s

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)/WorkFlow

PROGRAMMING BASICS

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Data Types

Int - IntegersDouble – Double Precision Floating Point

Range from -1.7E308 to 1.7E308 (That’s Big)

Strings – Text (These are objects, but we will worry about what that means later)

Booleans – T/F

Range Object

Represents a contiguous area of cells in a spreadsheet

Range is the base object in Excel VBA Programming

Iterative Programming

For Loop

Do Loop

Summation Idea

Let’s Make a Calculator!!!What do we need?

How do we return a value?

Questions?