Excel 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 run by the richest man
in the world. Excel, along with the other members of Microsoft Office 2003,
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