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What Is VBA?

VBA allows users and developers to customize an application from within the application itself. The birth of this concept was not with VBA. In fact, products like Microsoft Excel have been customizable using macros for a number of years. Microsoft Excel had its own macro language that was much different from the macro language of other applications, such as Microsoft Word. In an effort to unify the process of macro development, Microsoft introduced VBA as the common development environment and macro language for all its Office products. To expand on this idea, Microsoft now licenses VBA to other software vendors, allowing more than just off-the-shelf Microsoft applications the capability of VBA-enabled expansion.

So, why is VBA the ...