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Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)
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Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

by Bill Jelen, Tracy Syrstad
April 2022
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
19h 53m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 23

The Windows Application Programming Interface (API)

In this chapter, you will:

  • Understand the parts of an API declaration

  • Learn how to use an API declaration

  • Make 32-bit- and 64-bit-compatible API declarations

  • Review some API function examples

With all the wonderful things you can do in Excel VBA, there are some things that are out of VBA’s reach or that are just too difficult to do, such as finding out what the user’s screen resolution setting is. This is where the Windows Application Programming Interface (API) can help.

If you look in the Windows System directory \Windows\System32 (Windows NT systems), you will see many files with the extension .dll. These files, which are Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs), contain various functions ...

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ISBN: 9780137521531