Chapter 2. The VBA Design Environment

Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA as I’ll call it from now on, is the programming environment for writing and testing macros that you can run on demand and procedures that respond to various events that occur when you use Outlook. Because Outlook has no macro recorder (as is found in Word and Excel), you will have to write your Outlook VBA code from scratch.

The highlights of this chapter include discussions of the following:

  • How to get started using VBA

  • Where to enter program code

  • How to use the basic windows in the VBA programming environment

  • How to add a new VBA user form

  • How to avoid a security message when you start VBA

  • How to locate where Outlook saves your VBA code project

VBA: The basics

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