Excel VBA Programming For Dummies

Shows ordinary users how to harness the power of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and create custom Excel applications

This book introduces people to a wide array of new Excel options, including creating new worksheet functions, automating tasks and operations, creating new toolbars and menus, designing custom dialog boxes and add-ins, and much more

Begins with the most important tools and operations for the Visual Basic Editor, then provides an overview of the essential elements and concepts for programming with Excel

John Walkenbach, a.k.a. "Mr. Spreadsheet," runs a popular Web site () on Excel techniques and is the author of many bestselling books on Excel

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Title of ebook: Excel VBA Programming For Dummies
ISBN: 9780764578526
parent-ISBN: 9780764574122
Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 08-2004
Released online for download: 08-12-2004
Author of eBook: Walkenbach, John

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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, 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 control Excel.

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