Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Programming Solutions with VBA

What is Visual Basic for Applications 6.5 (VBA) doing in Visio 2007? 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 interactive 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 2007. You can actually automate Visio 2007 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 2007, choose Tools, Macro, Visual Basic ...