Why Excel Automation is an underrated app.
Excel is often overlooked as an UX/UI tool to develop apps. Under the hood, users can use Excel to develop a model, even with links to other pages (worksheets). Once this model is established, VBA code can add automation to the Excel app. Visualization is one of the many ways to validate proof of concept. VBA code in the Excel interface allows you to use VBA to run calculations and use proven formulas with visual buttons and other visual controls.
If you are an Excel user or an Excel expert, you can make an app prototype that can be enhanced with Excel VBA into a full, working application. Excel vba automation offers a simpler way of programming the app into another programming language because the users start with the business logic. And that can serve as a UX model. Although visualization is not quick and easy to implement without some UI/UX, spreadsheets offer a framework that users are comfortable with.
Excel VBA can be used as a prototype tool.
Often the simplest way to automate the process of data analysis, is to explain it using a spreadsheet or worksheet. An Excel project uses a worksheet to hold the data (i.e. each cell in a report). Because users understand how their data is used, they can set up the model with assurance it represents the model they intend. With the model defined, a VBA programmer can define business rules in a VBA function, VBA commands, and GUI objects pop-ups events like a VBA window. These small changes save a lot of time because the user gets automation like an app. An Excel file can even call another other Excel file, or automatically create multiple workbooks from templates, allowing the user to create multiple workbooks once the VBA is enabled and ready to use.
Another advantage of modeling with Excel is that the programmers only need access to alter the VBA programming, the users can alter the data, and the business logic.
In this way, the VBA code is only altered when the user cannot update other parts of the application (the data or business model)
Excel VBA can be used as a prototype tool.
With visualization, the end user can see and test the UI/UX, and the VBA code serves as the app automation language. The Excel VBA code is converted into macro code, which can be attached to buttons or other events. Once done, the VBA code enabled app, can serve as a model for development in Python, Java or whatever language is best for the app.
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UX/UI designers can record actions as starer code. Views clicked by the macro recorder are combined with the source code found in the Excel spreadsheet. Designers have the option of changing a non-built-in button configuration. Or a designer can change the dialog box to fit the design spec.
When the Excel app is working, as desired, then it can be used as a model for re-coding in another language, or even a web app.
How Excel app can be converted to web apps.
Excel VBA code, if written with conversion in mind, provides modular methods that can be converted into a web application.
Excel VBA code can be converted into Xojo web apps, and rewritten into other languages quickly. This reduces the time to get a working web app because the Excel VBA application (desktop) is proven.
VBA programming is the hidden feature behind the developer tab. That's where the Excel VBA code, and the macro recorder deposits the Excel macro code.
Hiring a VBA developer.
As an Excel VBA code developer, VBA programming has been a mainstay, of engineering apps, web appes, even the starting point for data-driven apps.