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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 10Creating Your Own Functions

In Chapter 9, “Using Built-In Functions,” you learned how to use VBA's built-in functions. In this chapter, you'll learn how, and when, to create your own functions.

You create a function the same way you create a subprocedure: by typing code into the Code window. (You can't record a function in Excel or Word—the applications that include a Macro Recorder. Instead, you have to write functions yourself because the Recorder creates only subprocedures.)

It's important to recall that, although both are technically called procedures, in VBA functions differ from subs. The primary difference is that functions interact more with other procedures. Functions accept arguments (incoming data) from the procedure ...

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