2.6. Next Steps

Now that you have seen the External Data features available from the Excel user interface and have been introduced to VBA, the next chapter will build on these features and also introduce some functionality that can only be accomplished through VBA. The next chapter will also show you how you can automate the formatting of data once it is extracted. As you go through the next chapter, start to think about the ways that you manipulate the data you bring into Excel today and how the functionality being introduced can be applied to that data to automate or add functionality to a task.