Excel 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference
Chapter One
Primer in Excel VBA
This chapter is intended for those who are not familiar with Excel and the Excel macro recorder, or
who are inexperienced with programming using the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language.
If you are already comfortable with navigating around the features provided by Excel, have used
the macro recorder, and have a working knowledge of VBA and the Visual Basic Editor (VBE), you
might want to skip straight to Chapter 3.
If this is not the case, this chapter has been designed to provide you with the information you need
to be able to move on comfortably to the more advanced features presented in the following
chapters. We will be covering the following topics:
The Excel macro recorder
User-defined functions
The Excel Object Model
VBA programming concepts
Excel VBA is a programming application that allows you to use Visual Basic code to run the many
features of the Excel package, thereby allowing you to customize your Excel applications. Units of
VBA code are often referred to as macros. We will be covering more formal terminology in this
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