Introduction

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a powerful tool that enables you to automate tasks in Microsoft Office applications.

Automating can save you and your colleagues considerable time and effort. Getting more work done in less time is usually good for your self-esteem, and it can do wonderful things for your job security and your career.

Where to Get This Book's Example Code

Throughout this book you'll find many code (programming) examples. Rather than type in the code, you'll save yourself time (and typo-debugging headaches) if you just copy the code from this book's web page and then paste it into the Visual Basic Editor. You can find all the code from this book—accurate, fully tested, and bug-free—at this book's web page: ...

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