Chapter 16. VBA Language Elements—Part 1

Our introduction to VBA in yesterday’s lesson encompassed a lot of conceptual and foundational information. Today, you get to roll up your sleeves and actually start doing something with VBA.

Today You Will Learn

  • What are Standard modules

  • What are Class modules

  • What is the basic structure of a module

  • What are procedures

  • How to pass arguments to procedures

  • What are variables

Many of the concepts we’re going to cover today and tomorrow can be very confusing if you’ve never done any programming before. We’re also facing a “chicken-before-the-egg” problem in many cases, because it can be difficult to grasp one concept before learning another one we haven’t yet covered. If you don’t fully understand something we’re ...

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