Chapter 4Creating Code from Scratch in the Visual Basic Editor
In this chapter, you'll practice creating macros (procedures) from scratch in the Visual Basic Editor. The examples walk you through the process of creating a macro in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
For the examples in this book, the Visual Basic Editor should be set up a certain way visually, and set to require explicit declarations of variables (considered a good programming practice), so we'll start off this chapter by ensuring that these conditions are met.
The purpose of this chapter is to give you a feel for creating code in the Visual Basic Editor before you study the details of the language in future chapters. Here you'll work briefly with VBA elements (such as objects, properties, ...
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