Business Solutions VBA and Macros for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007

Chapter . Introduction

IN THIS INTRODUCTION

Getting Results with VBA	1
What Is in This Book	1
The Future of VBA and Windows Versions of Excel	4
Special Elements and Typographical Conventions	5
Code Files	5
Next Steps	5

Getting Results with VBA

As corporate IT departments have found themselves with long backlogs of requests, Excel users have found that they can produce the reports needed to run their business themselves using the macro language Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). VBA enables you to achieve tremendous efficiencies in your day-to-day use of Excel. This is both a good and bad thing. On the good side, without waiting for resources from IT, you’ve probably been able to figure out how to import data and produce reports in Excel. On the bad side, ...