Mastering VBA for Microsoft Office 2016

Chapter 18Building Well-Behaved Code

This chapter concentrates on the principles of good code behavior. Once you've built a macro that's useful and that works consistently as intended, you'll probably want to distribute it to some friends and coworkers, or even to a wider audience on the Internet.

Before you distribute it, though, you should make sure the procedure behaves in a civilized manner. It should be sensitive in its interaction with users and with the settings they may have chosen on their computers. It's all too easy to distribute an apparently solid, useful procedure that nevertheless runs roughshod over a user's preferences or that fails unexpectedly under certain circumstances. In this chapter, you'll look at how to avoid such ...