Excel 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies
Chapter One
What Is VBA?
In This Chapter
* Gaining a conceptual overview of VBA
* Finding out what you can do with VBA
* Discovering the advantages and disadvantages of using VBA
* Taking a mini-lesson on the history of Excel
This chapter is completely devoid of any hands-on training material. It
does, however, contain some essential background information that
assists you in becoming an Excel programmer. In other words, this chapter
paves the way for everything else that follows and gives you a feel for how
Excel programming fits into the overall scheme of the universe.
Okay, So What Is VBA?
VBA, which stands for Visual Basic for Applications, is a programming language
developed by Microsoft - you know, the company that's run by the
richest man in the world. Excel, along with the other members of Microsoft
Office 2007, includes the VBA language (at no extra charge). In a nutshell,
VBA is the tool that people like you and me use to develop programs that
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