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Excel 2019 Power Programming with VBA
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Excel 2019 Power Programming with VBA

by Michael Alexander, Dick Kusleika
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
784 pages
18h 27m
English
Wiley
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CHAPTER 6Understanding Excel's Events

What You Should Know About Events

In many of the example macros in this book, there will be code implemented as event procedures, which are procedures that automatically trigger upon the occurrence of an event. An event is nothing more than an action that takes place during a session in Excel.

Everything that happens in Excel happens to an object through an event. A few examples of events are opening a workbook, adding a worksheet, changing a value in a cell, saving a workbook, double-clicking a cell, and the list goes on. The nifty thing is that you can tell Excel to run a certain macro or piece of code when a particular event occurs.

Excel is programmed to monitor many different events. These events can be classified as follows:

  • Workbook events Events that occur for a particular workbook. Examples of such events include Open (the workbook is opened or created), BeforeSave (the workbook is about to be saved), and NewSheet (a new sheet is added).
  • Worksheet events Events that occur for a particular worksheet. Examples include Change (a cell on the sheet is changed), SelectionChange (the user moves the cell indicator), and ...
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