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Mastering VBA for Microsoft Office 365, 2019th Edition
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Mastering VBA for Microsoft Office 365, 2019th Edition

by Richard Mansfield
July 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
944 pages
27h 45m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 9Using Built-In Functions

VBA comes with a large number of built-in functions that perform commonly needed operations—everything from determining whether a file exists on the hard drive to returning the current date or converting data from one format to another. For example, there's a function that converts numeric data into a text string.

In this book, I usually refer to most VBA language components (VBA's diction) as commands. In this chapter, though, we'll call them functions. Other names that are sometimes used—more or less accurately—for these built-in commands include: operations, methods (with objects), routines, procedures, and stored procedures.

This chapter demonstrates what functions are, what they do, and how to use them. ...

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