Excel 2016 VBA and Macros

7. Event Programming

In This Chapter

Levels of Events

Using Events

Workbook Events

Worksheet Events

Chart Sheet Events

Application-Level Events

Next Steps

In this book, you have read about workbook events, and you have seen examples of worksheet events. An event allows you to automatically trigger a procedure to run based on something a user or another procedure does in Excel. For example, if a user changes the contents of a cell, after he or she presses Enter or Tab, you can have code run automatically. The event that triggers the code is the changing of the contents of the cell.

Levels of Events

You can find events at the following levels:

Application level—Control based on application actions, such as Application_NewWorkbook

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