Learn how to create HR (Human Resource) Database using Excel

Learn how to create an HR (Human Resource) Database using Excel, Use Excel workbook as a source of database easily use instead of Access files.

VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications an event-driven programming language from Microsoft that is now predominantly used with Microsoft office applications such as MS Excel, MS-Word, and MS-Access.

It helps techies to build customized applications and solutions to enhance the capabilities of those applications. The advantage of this facility is that you NEED NOT have visual basic installed on our PC, however, installing Office will implicitly help in achieving the purpose.

You can use VBA in all office versions, right from MS-Office 97 to MS-Office 2013 and also with any of the latest versions available. Among VBA, Excel VBA is the most popular. The advantage of using VBA is that you can build very powerful tools in MS Excel using linear programming.

Application of VBA

You might wonder why to use VBA in Excel as MS-Excel itself provides loads of inbuilt functions. MS-Excel provides only basic inbuilt functions which might not be sufficient to perform complex calculations. Under such circumstances, VBA becomes the most obvious solution.

For example, it is very hard to calculate the monthly repayment of a loan using Excel’s built-in formulas. Rather, it is easy to program a VBA for such a calculation.

An HR Management system is used to handle inventory items that work as an issue, add, and transfer. There is many software on the market which the free license covered some of these works. You can now build with this simple article your own software easily using a few lines of code. Even you do not have any previous experience of coding.

An amazing idea is to create Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) using Excel VBA (with free code).