In this part of the video series you’ll learn the following:
Writing VBA Procedures
Overview Of VBA Modules And Procedures
Working With VBA Modules
The VBA Code Window
Creating A VBA Sub Procedure
Working With VBA Variables
Declaring Variables In VBA
Overview of Modules and Procedures:
Statements ->
Single lines of programming code that performs a single task.
Keywords ->
Words within statements which are part of VBA.
Procedures ->
Sets of statements designed to be run together. Procedures exist in modules.
Module ->
They hold 1 or more procedures. Stand alone modules are called standard modules.
Statements, declarations which can affect all the procedures in a module are called “General Declarations”
Here is a diagram of the previous explanation:
| MODULE | |||
| GENERAL DECLARATIONS | |||
| PROCEDURE | |||
| STATEMENT | |||
| STATEMENT | |||
| STATEMENT | |||
| PROCEDURE | |||
| STATEMENT | |||
| STATEMENT | |||
| STATEMENT |
The VBA Code Window:
Click here for the database used in most of the modules:
Nwind_2k_modified.mdb
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