From the course: Excel Copilot: Building and Maintaining VBA Macros

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Challenge: Automate reports with VBA and Copilot

Challenge: Automate reports with VBA and Copilot

From the course: Excel Copilot: Building and Maintaining VBA Macros

Challenge: Automate reports with VBA and Copilot

(bright music) - [Instructor] Now it's time for a challenge. Here's what I want you to do. Open the starter file called Report Automation Challenge, and follow along closely step by step. You've just received this month's sales data worksheet. Your director asks you to automate three specific tasks using VBA macros, and you'll use Copilot to help you write each one separately. Start by building a macro that formats your workbook data into a clean professional Excel table. Have it automatically resize the columns for a polished look, and then sort the table so that sales appear from highest to lowest. Next, you'll create an analysis macro to automatically highlight any salespeople who didn't meet their quotas. Have your macro bulldoze rows, and change the font color to red. Additionally, your director wants a simple column chart visualizing sales by salesperson, clearly visualizing employee performance. Finally, you'll…

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