So open a copy of Excel and let's get started. Over time VBA has been removed from the main menus and been converted into an option to save beginners from being confused or intimidated by it.įor the screen dumps we are going to use Excel 2010 but the all of the earlier versions of Excel work in much the same way once you get to actually writing a program.
The same is true for different versions of Excel - but what does differ is how you gain access to the facility. You will also find VBA within other Office applications and the details of the language hardly differ.
What is isn't so good at is building big and sophisticated applications, but as a way of automating Excel and building Excel-based applications it is very good indeed. Today VBA is the last outpost of classic Visual Basic and it is very suited to getting jobs done quickly and easily. VBA is derived from Visual Basic 6 which was the most used programming language in the world until it was phased out when Microsoft introduced.
