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Excel Programming with VBA Starter

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849688444
Pages 62 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Robert F Martin Robert F Martin
Profile icon Robert F Martin

Table of Contents (8) Chapters

Excel Programming with VBA Starter
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1. Excel Programming with VBA Starter Index

So, what is VBA?


In this section, you will get to know a bit about VBA, its basic features, what you can do with it, and how you can put it to work with a view to facilitating your daily work, by automating common tasks.

The basic features of VBA

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming language built into Microsoft Office applications. As you improve your skills in any application from the Office System, you will eventually realize that although Microsoft Office applications offer a large number of tools, they do not offer everything you need to perform your daily chores. Such chores may include creating a corporate custom-format, a custom function that calculates commission payments, and so on.

Thus, VBA works as a gap-filler; in other words, its main purpose is to ensure that you can do whatever you need to do in your job.

What kind of things can you do with it?

Once you have pushed your experience using the Office application to the limits and you can no longer get your job done...

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