Access VBA Programming For Dummies
Chapter One
Where VBS Fits In
In This Chapter
* Describing Access
* Discovering VBA
* Seeing where VBA lurks
* Understanding how VBA works
This is a book about using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which is a
programming language that helps you program, tweak, and squeeze productivity
from Access. VBA, which is embedded in Access, is a sophisticated
set of programming tools that you can use to harness the power of a packaged
application like Access. Just like you need to know how to walk before you can
run, you need to know Access before you can start to use Access VBA.
Maybe you want to use Access to manage a large mailing list. Maybe you
need Access to manage your whole business, including customers, products,
and orders. Perhaps you need to manage enrollments in courses or events.
Whatever your reason for using Access, your first step will always be to
create the tables for storing your data. From there, you can then create
queries, forms, reports, and macros to help manage those data. All these
steps take place before you even get into VBA. So in this book, I have to
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