Next Steps for Working with Automation in Microsoft Office

Once you’ve mastered the basics in this primer, you’re likely to find more complex VBA to be quite easy. As mentioned earlier, Microsoft provides the MSDN Library, a free online resource, where you can find instructions and samples for quite a bit of VBA code.

Are you thinking, perhaps, that you might want to go even further? Now that you’re writing macros, can VBA take you far enough, or does your work warrant a foray into professional development tools like Microsoft Visual Studio?

Tristan Davis, a program manager on the 2007 Office release product team and programmability guru, has this to say about how to set the goals that are right for you when it comes to automating Microsoft Office. ...

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