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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET

by Jeff Webb, Steve Saunders
April 2006
Beginner
1114 pages
98h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Not Covered Here

Chapters 2 and 3 give you a lot to think about. Still, there are a few things about Visual Basic I haven’t touched on. The two reasons I haven’t covered everything yet:

  • Some functions are obsolete or not particularly useful from Excel.

  • Other Visual Basic keywords are very advanced.

Table 3-23 lists the Visual Basic functions that are obsolete or aren’t often used in Excel. Table 3-24 lists advanced keywords.

Table 3-23. Obsolete or obscure Visual Basic functions

Function

Use to

Beep

Play a beep through the computer’s speaker.

Environ

Get strings from the operating system’s environment string table. For instance, Environ("path") returns the MS-DOS PATH environment variable.

Command

Get command-line arguments. Excel applications don’t use command-line arguments.

Table 3-24. Advanced Visual Basic keywords

Category

Keyword

System registry

DeleteSetting

 

GetSetting

 

GetAllSettings

 

SaveSetting

Windows APIs

Declare

 

AddressOf

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