Chapter 2Getting Started with the Visual Basic Editor

In this chapter, you'll start learning how to use the Visual Basic Editor, a powerful tool bundled with Office 2016 for working with VBA. This programming editor is the culmination of more than 20 years of modifications and improvements. It is highly effective.

All applications that host VBA use the Visual Basic Editor, so the interface and the Editor's tools are much the same no matter which application you're using.

This chapter covers the fundamentals of the Visual Basic Editor: its components, what they do, and how you use them. You'll learn more advanced maneuvers as you work with VBA throughout this book.

This chapter also shows you how to customize the Visual Basic Editor to make ...

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