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Creating Access Applications
Creating Access Applications
An Access database can also include code modules, written in the programming language
known as Visual Basic for Applications. Although you won’t learn how to write code in the
chapters ahead, you might be interested in exploring some of the locations where code can
be of use in a database application.
➔ For a thorough introduction to VBA as used throughout Office, see “VBA Basics,” p. 1136.
In general, a programmer writes code modules to simplify the use of a database—to auto-
mate procedures, to provide intuitive database objects and tools, to create and implement
menus, to perform complex ...