Fully Qualified Procedure Names

When we call a public procedure that lies in another code module, there is a potential problem with ambiguity, for there may be more than one public procedure with the same name in another module. VBA will execute the first one it finds, and this may not be the one we had in mind!

The solution is to use a qualified procedure name, which has the form:

ModuleName.ProcedureName

For instance, if a public procedure named AddOne lies in a module named Utilities, then we can call this procedure using the syntax:

Utilities.AddOne

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