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Excel University Lesson 605: Mastering Excel VBA - Ranges, Charts, and Performance

Automate complex reporting and optimize your macros for speed and reliability.

Created byJeff Lenningworkspace_premiumBest Instructor
AdvancedUpdated Sep 23, 2026

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleApply reliable range referencing techniques to prevent macro breakage
  • check_circleImplement performance-boosting practices like screen updating control and object variables
  • check_circleManipulate chart properties programmatically for both embedded and chart sheet types
  • check_circleDevelop error handling routines for user-selected chart objects
  • check_circleAutomate corporate design standards across multiple charts and worksheets

About This Course

This course provides a technical exploration of advanced Excel VBA techniques, focusing on robust range manipulation, dynamic chart management, and performance optimization. It covers the object model for charts, including the distinction between embedded chart objects and chart sheets, and demonstrates how to use structured table references to ensure macro stability.

Participants will learn to implement efficient coding practices such as using object variables, the With statement, and application-level settings like screen updating and calculation modes to enhance macro execution speed. The material also addresses error handling and user communication strategies to create professional, reliable automation tools.

Topics Covered:

  • Dynamic range selection methods
  • Structured table references in VBA
  • Embedded charts versus chart sheets
  • Application performance optimization techniques
  • Object variable implementation
  • Error handling for chart selection
  • Automated chart design standards
  • Pivot chart and line chart formatting

Course Content

3 activities • 3 videos • duration: 1h 9m

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Lecture2 videos • 1 quiz • 55 min
  • videocamVBA Briefing 5
    Duration 33:40
  • videocamCase Study 5
    Duration 21:27
  • quizLecture Quiz
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Additional Resources1 videos • 14 min
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Final Assessment1 quiz

Your Instructor

Jeff Lenning

CPA and Microsoft Certified Trainer

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In his live CPE training sessions, Jeff Lenning CPA has shown thousands of CPAs and accounting professionals across the country how to use Excel to streamline their work and become more efficient. Several publications have featured his Excel articles, including the Journal of Accountancy and California CPA Magazine. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Jeff began his career in the audit practice at Arthur Andersen’s Orange County office. He was a senior financial analyst at Gateway computers and the accounting manager at Interpore Cross International. In 2000, he founded Click Consulting Inc., a technology-consulting firm that specializes in Excel training, consulting, development, and personal coaching. He is a past president of the CalCPA OCLB Chapter, the former chair of the California CPA State Technology Committee, co-chair of the California CPA OCLB Chapter Technology Committee, a board member of the California CPA OCLB Chapter, on the California Society of CPAs Council, and an instructor for the AICPA and the California CPA Education Foundation. A Microsoft Office Certified Excel Expert, he is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer. He was recently recognized with the California CPA Education Foundation's Award for Instructor Excellence.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

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