Chapter 22. Working with Other Applications
IN THIS CHAPTER
Working With Automation Servers 340
Case Study: Using Excel Charts 345
Understanding Automation
Up to this point, we have shown you capabilities of Microsoft Access by itself. We can’t forget, however, that Access is part of the Microsoft Office suite of programs. One of the main purposes of an integrated suite of applications is to allow the programs to work together, letting each program do what it does best. The term for this is automation. VBA provides a code structure that allows you to create applications that can control other applications within the suite from any one application. But automation is ...
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