Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Programming Solutions with VBA

What is Visual Basic for Applications 6.4 (VBA) doing in Visio? Think like a programmer for a minute. What if every action that you can do to shapes could be done automatically? What if there was a way to collect information from a drawing, such as through a form or an inter-active control? What if the information in a drawing could be sent to another program for analysis automatically? With VBA, you can write a separate program called a macro that controls actions in Visio. You can actually automate Visio using any development tool that’s capable of creating Microsoft Windows applications, but VBA is the tool that’s built in. To display the VBA editor in Visio, choose Tools, Macros, Visual Basic Editor. The VBA ...