How to Replace VBA with Python(Step-By-Step Tutorial)

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How to Automate Excel with Python
In this video, I'm going to show you how to get started using Python with Excel.
We will cover how to:
* Install Python and all the relevant libraries
* Install the IDE(code editor)
* Run a script(3 different ways and it's important to understand each)
* Read and write Excel workbooks using Python
* How to trigger Python scripts from Excel events
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Useful VBA Shortcut Keys
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Debugging:
Compile the code: Alt + D + C OR Alt + D + Enter
Run the code from the current sub: F5
Step into the code line by line: F8
Add a breakpoint to pause the code: F9(or click left margin)
Windows:
View the Immediate Window: Ctrl + G
View the Watch Window: Alt + V + H
View the Properties Window: F4
Switch between Excel and the VBA Editor: Alt + F11
View the Project Explorer Window: Ctrl + R
Writing Code:
Search keyword under cursor: Ctrl + F3
Search the word last searched for: F3
Auto complete word: Ctrl + Space
Get the definition of the item under the cursor: Shift + F2
Go to the last cursor position: Ctrl + Shift + F2
Get the current region on a worksheet: Ctrl + Shift + 8(or Ctrl + *)
To move lines of code to the right(Indent): Tab
To move lines of code to the left(Outdent): Shift + Tab
Delete a Line: Ctrl + Y(note: this clears the clipboard)
Table of Contents:
00:00 - Introduction
03:23 - Running Python code
08:05 - How to use OpenPyxl to read files
14:00 - How to use Pandas for data analysis
19:58 - How to use xlWings
24:43 - Installing the xlWings Addin
27:06 - Call Python from VBA
29:00 - Call VBA from Python
30:18 - Summary

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@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

I hope you enjoy this video. Let me know in the comments if you plan to use Python with Excel.

@anilaeek4374 2 года назад

I'm getting error will trying to import openpyxl thru vs code also tried to run thru terminal the error says "module error unable to import" and asking me to install mkl-packages for intel from git. How to fix this??

@banyagatiger 2 года назад

Your tutorials are great! Keep it up mate! Hoping to see more python in excel samples! Thanks bud!

@OssMoss1 2 года назад

Excellent tutorial - well explained, 'no fluff, no noise; honest and down-to-earth'... I was missing a few bits and it was a pain of trial n'error... your video I filled the gaps... now I'm ready to take the plunge...

@kasio24 2 года назад

thanks for this report I see you from Colombia nice work. you have the new subscriber

@ExcelInstructor Год назад

Hello I like your VBA videos, but will you make "python macro mastery" channel in which ull teach how to use python with excel / SAP / ERP systems?

@elsheep6951 2 года назад

Hi Paul, since doing your webinar VBA course (thank you it has proved useful time and again) I wandered into Python, pandas and saw that they were powerful and useful but could not for the life of me see how I could use them in the office. So glad you are still here to help. It also looks like my role playing project is getting an upgrade!

@sindiso_ndlovu 2 года назад

This video worth all the credits I can possibly give, so much information in just 30 minutes. Wow this was an amazing tutorial trust me I've done a lot

@rickwize1182 2 года назад

You are an excellent teacher & I learned about VBA from you. Would love to see you have a full course on Python / Excel / xlwings. Would sign up immediately!

@yvonplancade725 Год назад

Big thanks! After long searches without success on the net, I arrived on your site thanks to which I finally managed to understand and implement xlwings.A great moment!!!

@isadom7586 2 месяца назад

You are a Magician! Me reading "Hello There" after you pyxld it: "Wow!" Thank you for the content in the description, I have spent 13 minutes watching this video. We're on Sunday, 6PM. Finally I found you!

@z.r.777 2 года назад

Opened the video, jumped to an area of interest, within 5 seconds I learned something new... Thank you.

@jaimesastre6393 2 года назад

Wow, I do use python and Xls separately, sometimes with Pandas. But here the combination with other libraries open infinite possibilities. Thanks 🙏👍

@wayneedmondson1065 2 года назад

Hi Paul. Thanks for this intro to Python with EXCEL. Nice to know the options and how they work together. Thanks for sharing :)) Thumbs up!!

@DavidRejavinski Год назад

This is really a very concise and powerful mini-tutorial. Take your time and revise every detail. Thanks Paul K.

@Excelmacromastery Год назад

Very welcome

@michaellean 2 года назад

Fantastic! Have been wanting to "jump ship" to Python - I can now steadily upgrade and use the best of both worlds! Thanks for the great and easy to follow intro

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

You're welcome Michael.

@Freeflier1978 2 года назад

I was in Python before I got into Excel. I'd rather just run Python as excels backend vs VBA. I write most of my excel sheets using xlxswriter Python library as well.

@surat-dt9sr 2 года назад

Thanks so much. I'm newbie . Your explanation quick but we got the point

@MrPaunty 2 года назад

Thanks Paul, that will help me in start xl automation through python

@freeliberalminds Год назад

Great thanks for this tutorial sir Paul. This is very interesting and very informative.

@pravinshingadia7337 8 месяцев назад

Thank you - this is awesome. First step taken today to learn Python thanks to you

@pbeeby Год назад

Cracking video. Really useful and informative. Thanks, mate. Best wishes from Melbourne australia

@zetandpeligaming 2 года назад

Very useful thanks. Been using VBA in excel for a while now, and wanted to learn another language. This bridges the gap nicely and allows me to apply what I've learnt with VBA to start playing with Python a bit more :)

@mKravedi 2 года назад

Same goes for myself! Very useful video! Thanks Paul!

@dwaynefong 8 месяцев назад

OMg this video is such much beter than the others. very clear and concise Such a good instructor. great work thank you!

@ImtiazAhmad-hg4yk Год назад

This kind of teaching is addictive

@SaidElnaffar 2 года назад

Unique tutorial with a great contirbution!

@SpManos-zeke Год назад

Installation worked like a charm, thank you. Though I did have to use this method to find the XLSTART folder since I don't know my way around the VBA Editor in Excel 1-Click File > Options. 2-Click Trust Center, and then under Microsoft Office Excel Trust Center, click Trust Center Settings. 3-Click Trusted Locations, and then verify the path to the XLStart folder in the list of trusted locations.

@johnwayne8059 2 года назад

Well done, nice video Paul!👍👍👍 that's pretty helpful!🤟😎

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

Thanks John.

@arielspalter7425 Год назад

Incredible tutorial. 👍

@kennethstephani692 2 года назад

Excellent video!

@OpenSesame001 2 года назад

Awesome video.. Love VBA and now I can even use VBA via Python.. thanks for insight.. also I didnt know xlsz was a zip.. nice discovery too...

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

Glad you liked it.

@edclarke7398 Год назад

Excellent tutorial

@azekialbayrak 2 года назад

Thank you very much Paul.

@mattkriese7170 Год назад

Excellent info!

@MsOfficeLearning 2 года назад

Thank you for the best tutorial sir.

@akshayc7152 2 года назад

Thank you..the video was very informative.. looking forward for more such videos..i am a beginner in python and this can be a good starting point..thankyou once again 🙏

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@micheltw 2 года назад

Great intro video for this entry of python in Excel, looking forward to get more. Can you show how to get data from a file to another file?

@sanjayvaghela 2 года назад

Awesome video Paul, I am always waiting for video, "VBA Code Run 1000 Times Faster" was amazing, I implemented on my code and my macro super fast now, keep posting, appreciated.. this video motivate me to learn Python.. thanks..

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

Thanks Sanjay.

@exeldom 11 месяцев назад

thank you very much good sir. you have shared some valuable knowledge to the world of excel users.

@eprepr5914 2 года назад

Very interesting. Thanks.

2 года назад

I have to postpone the babysitting job for 30 minutes just to watch and like this lol. Awesome! Tom from Danang.

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

Hi Tom. Video was made in Danang😀.

@TheJonathanLugo 2 года назад

Genius! Thank you :)

@taxlala 2 года назад

i like the vedio and knowledge most.....

@J_Barry_S 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing

@daves4026 2 года назад

Great video.

@ggod00 2 года назад

This is awesome. More stuff like this please.

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

Glad you like it.

@Denis-pq9kq 2 года назад

Awesome video! Do you know if I can install the xlwings addin on a Mac by any chance? Is there any pip install command for that? Thank you!

@renatocorreaarrieche 2 года назад

Nice video, thanks, I learned a lot. Tip: maybe there is a wrong image in 11:05. You may had removed ID column in file and used an older image.

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

Yes, you are right.

@manassehkisame6286 Год назад

Splendid!

@KLiCuk1 2 года назад

This is great - hope there are more to come. Just a quick question.... print(sheet["A10"].Value) returned "Student 9" but this is the value in cell B10 on the example sheet. I'm assuming that wasn't the actual sheet that the Python code was pointing at ? If it was then I'm confused

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

You're right. Actually I inserted a column after I recorded that. It did work correctly but the ID column didn't exist when I ran it.

@KLiCuk1 2 года назад

@@Excelmacromastery Cheers - I thought so

@blazer125 2 года назад

Glad I read the comments and I'm glad you asked this question.

@MrSabotage83 2 года назад

Hey Paul, Brilliant stuff. I just started to learn PY and I have a question if I may... Q1 - when you set the df to the example range (a1:c13), can you set it to named ranges ex. df = sheet.range("myNameRNG").options(pd.DataFrame).value

@tomoo79 2 года назад

Paul, thanks for this it is really interesting! i think the environment setup is not so straight forward, at least for me. I had to: reinstall numpy from within vscode update xlwings and conda: "conda update -c conda-forge xlwings" wk.close does not seem to work but wk.close() does seem to work initialising excel if it is not already open is also necessary xw.App (visible=True, add_book=True)

@vikramjagtap6849 2 года назад

Wonderful

@marshallhosel1247 2 года назад

Thank you

@MrMallesh1 2 года назад

Awesome video..... how to use msgbox in python, to interact with user. error handling etc.

@timucintimucin4146 Год назад

For those who gets "ValueError: Cannot mask with non-boolean array containing NA / NaN values" Error. Please add "na=False" parameter to match function just like following: results = df[df['Class'].str.match('A', na=False)]

@MrMallesh1 2 года назад

Looking one more video on python ! no video since last one month ! desperately waiting one more video. thanks

@Metal-BIM 2 года назад

Is is great, I will use many of this for my work

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

Thaks Andres.

@taarigo6119 2 года назад

Great video, Thank you. Please I tried to run my xlsm file (with goalseek function) using python and import xlwings, but I have a run time error '1004' reference isn't valid, if I run the xlsm directly without python it works. Please what is the error?

@iggymach Год назад

Excellent video, quick question if I may, I ended up watching this video as I am learning Macros for Excel but I find VBA to be archaic and old-fashion in its syntax (not to mention some limitations as not being able to resize both dimensions in a dynamic bi-dimensional array, but only the second one). Also, for me it is a non- transferable skill (where else I am going to use VBA? The question is: Can I use python (and those specific libraries) to achieve the same as I would with VBA, without the need to learn VBA syntax? or I still need to know the VBA syntax and only then do the translation into python? Thank you in advance.

@1612ganesh 2 года назад

Excited

@reng7777 2 года назад

Hi i have a prolbem by importing openpyxl.. the massege says: " openpyxl is not accessed pylance, do you know what can i do from here?

@riteshsingh118 2 года назад

Could you please share a comparision video on efficiency of these tools.

@sajeersayed2008 2 года назад

Can't wait

@MGE0007 2 года назад

Ooooh! I think I will hang around and have a butchers at this..!!

@tigreonice2339 5 месяцев назад

Related with selenium: I have an excel or csv file, some cells have NaN value. I want when there's no value (Nan) the driver doesn't fill in the web input(with 'Nan' or nan), just skip it to the next line code instruction.... how can I do that???

@vishnur9773 2 года назад

For running the macro using phyton, does the excel file need to be kept opened?

@georgeiskander2458 2 года назад

Great Video ,,,, Check the pictures of the excel sheet it has ID col which is wrong

@muthoosmathew Год назад

Hi Paul, Newbie question. How can this be shared with other users who doesn’t have python installed? The advantage of using VBA is that distribution of the tool does not need any additional installations. Is there a workaround? Thanks in advance for your response!

@thsetharus Год назад

Ser, when trying to import, I get the error "Import "openpyxl" could not be resolved from source". So what is the reason of this? may you help?

@vasanthkumarkallannavar7594 2 месяца назад

Good, Hey Excel MAcro Mastery i need command that reads the plotted charts and graphs in the sheet and save those charts to device, any support ?

@sanjayvaghela 2 года назад

Hay, one suggestion.. can you make video on VBA and selenium driver? If you can its very helpful.. Thanks in advance..

@speedyg2295 8 месяцев назад

Wish you had this for MAC. Very informative but i couldn't get the runPython from VBA too work. I did however get PyCharm and VSCode to reach in take from and give back to Excel

@bhaskarmukherjee7889 2 года назад

This is advanced... Is there any source to learn Python from very basics

@khalilothman5638 2 года назад

when I press the button it say : Error --------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'fromvba' is not defined -

@phillipssky8049 2 года назад

When you do print(sheet["A10"].value) I thought you should get just number 9; how come it returned Student 9? Sorry maybe I missed something.

@winstondemoura8267 2 года назад

Great video! Random question: Where are you from?

@markyaney9820 2 года назад

Can the examples in this video be performed in Intelli J

@martinholmes3305 Год назад

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did not even know... will be working through this on my project and seeing what gives, thank you so much Maestro. Can this be done on mobile phone, maybe need to run pyhton on colab? Or can my VBA project only be converted easily into an Android app using a PC, or running the python on Colab and Google Drive, on the Chrome browser for android? It would be cool if I could scrape the data and process it, as the VBA does currently, but on android mobile phone as well.

@jacobstewart5120 2 года назад

I like how this came up as a suggested video while I am sitting here like an idiot that just cut and pasted a column on a filtered 100,000x55 range... I knew I messed up as CTRL+ALT+V V was rolling off my fingers. lol

@firstcommenter202 2 года назад

can python do OLE ActiveX? GUI programming, Windows API?

@josea.bocanegra6774 17 дней назад

Notation: install pyWin32

@jimmybrancho6775 Год назад

hello & thank you for a wonderful tutorial! i've been fighting with xlwings for about three hours and i can't get the xlwings ribbon to appear in excel 2013. all other parts appear to be working. i'm working from a fresh anaconda install and xlwings v. 0.27.15 which conda installed itself. inside the vba editor, i see and can check xlwings as a reference. it also appears and appears to load correctly as an excel add-in. the only thing that is going wrong is that the ribbon won't appear. is there anything to be done at this point?

@eliotharreau7627 2 года назад

Hi Paul, what is your color theme for VS code ? Thank you.

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

I picked the default dark one.

@thomasl.4081 Год назад

Best way for me (and 1:1 VBA commands) is with the Python win32 functionality

@jonsmile4279 2 года назад

QQ: at 11:09 your code shows the print “Student 9” from cell A10. Cell A10 contains “9”. Cell B10 contains “Student 9”. What am I missing?

@estebanalfaroorozco9289 2 года назад

Is possibly because his first column was interpreted by pandas as an index

@ojieuntoo 2 года назад

Any idea how to add data to table in worksheet with python?

@sorledecoder7867 8 месяцев назад

Sir I want to know if we must have Anaconda installed on our system before we can get python work this way?

@lastspring Год назад

FYI, I could only get the xlWings section to work if Excel was actually running. It didn't have to be on the file being used (blank work sheet was OK).

@LifetimeMomentsVideo 2 года назад

I am having trouble understanding at the 11:00 minute mark. Shouldn't A10 retrieve '9' instead of 'student 9'?

@rgarciaf071 Год назад

Dumb question, what is the performance overhead of having this communication Excel -> VBA Python especially for large datasets and analysis? while it seems very neat, I wonder if this can scale easily also debugging could become significantly more difficult, but I have very little knowledge on VBA

@adrianojr9974 2 года назад

Just for example: """ vba: Set new_w = Workbooks.open('workbook_path') Set new_s = new_w.Worksheets('sheet_name') new_s.Range('A1').Value = 'test' python pywin32 library: new_w = Workbooks.open('workbook_path') new_s = new_w.Worksheets('sheet_name') new_s.Range('A1').Value = 'test' """

@user-rr2vs8zl4u Год назад

Thank You~~As Always~~!!!

@plainvanilla7901 2 года назад

When he changed the file extension to zip, I felt like I took the red pill.

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

😄

@SeamusHarper1234 2 года назад

This is a really great introductions into the python / XLS ecosystem. I've played a lot with integrating pandas into my workflows, but I must say in most cases it's best to keep excel and other systems separate. Excels toolkit, especially considering power query, will solve nearly all problems you encounter in the wild and the benefits of python do not justify the added hassle. For example, your XLS files will not work properly on other peoples systems. You will have to setup python on your colleagues machines, and if you ship to customers.... Maybe you can freeze your script into an exe, but as an it admin, I would instantly fire any employee who executes random exe files... On the other hand, you can prepare your data with python, save to a CSV file and pull it in with power query. That's much cleaner.

@Excelmacromastery 2 года назад

Thanks for the feedback Seamus. You raised some interesting points.

@insanusfreewar 2 года назад

I agree. I am the admin's nightmare myself, because I like to install software on my working PC (like Python or Total Commander as a replacement for the Windows Explorer as a filemanager) and I would love to automate more stuff. But the problem is, that other people couldn't work with the files anymore (but they have to), if I exaggerate it. So I usally stuck with Excel formulas, which works in many cases, at least for the most part.

@SeamusHarper1234 2 года назад

@@insanusfreewar try power query ;-) It does great work in automation and it ships with excel.

@insanusfreewar 2 года назад

@@SeamusHarper1234 Thanks, I will give it a try. 🙂

@emilymn4468 11 месяцев назад

Agreed fully. In finance & accounting teams work with huge excel files. I am yet to see any video/training on python based automation that can replace the manual/macro based processes. If anyone has such a video/training please share

@champak_chacha251 6 месяцев назад

How can I get first row number after applying filter in Excel sheet using xlwings?

@SpecArbor 2 года назад

Im conufsed. At 11:09, you asked python to return the value in cell A10, but it returned the value in cell B10??? Can someone explain?

2 года назад

Please launch this course, I will sign up your python course immediately.

@dannym.1602 Год назад

@11:01 why does 'print(sheet["A10"].value)' print "Student 9" when it's actually in B10 in the workbook? Then @11:51 'sheet["b15"] = "Hello There"' add the statement directly to b15 in the workbook?

@munafdamani6233 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing knowledge which is rarely available in RU-vid world. Dear sir, I am using Excel in stock market data analysis. It is automated with some VBA and formulas. On daily basis, I need to download 5 sheets (CSV and excel) from one site, need to change the dates at 2-3 places and have to appy some VBA code. Can the above procedure be automated? Currently the above procedure takes 15-20 and then I have to analyse data. If it gives direct results within 5 minutes, then it will be fantastic.

@Nedim89 2 года назад

Give me your contact I can make automation?

@varunaggarwal3958 2 года назад

Did you get a reply to your question? I can't access the reply.

@munafdamani6233 2 года назад

@@varunaggarwal3958 no

@SaulEduardoo2 2 года назад

Hello Paul, just a minimal doubt, I have seen that the r and the f are constantly used as (r'somehting here") and (f'things here'), but, what are those stand for?

@StefanoVerugi Год назад

r for instance allows you to avoid double backslashes in your path (at least in windows) f is to create a string with {data} inside, better than "this" + "+" + variable

@heyjude1971 2 года назад

Great video! Thanks so much for the info! It amazes me that only 9% of viewers upvoted it. We know the 91% who didn't upvote likely learned something. (And there are presently no down votes.) We can do better than this. If you learned something from (or enjoyed) a video, let's at least give it a click; it's effortless.

@rajatdogra96 10 месяцев назад

If .main is changes with fun1 will it call def fun1 from python code ? 28:38

@taylormccoy7492 Год назад

I'm getting a permissions error when I try to save the workbook with the same code we have in the first part of the video?

@rsdyeahh 2 года назад

Any chance to get RTD working?

@RaianTourada 11 месяцев назад

Hey Paul @Excelmacromastery ! I have a question and I will be grateful if you will answer :) I'm working with Excel but I don't know how to use VBA, I have some programming basics, but I can barely read VBA code intuitively (maybe 5% of some easy code), now I need to automatize excel files, something like: filter by column AJ values [90%:150%) and copy all the data to the new sheet .. and so on and so on. Also I'll need some UI with options and values input.. what is the best option for me - to start learning VBA or to start learning Python? Thank You in advance!