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Jargon Dictionary |
VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)VBA is the programming language which is built in to Microsoft Access (?) and other MS-Office applications such as Word and Excel. It allows us to expand the capabilities of an Access database in ways which the "point and click" wizards cannot hope to achieve. For instance, you might want a button on your customer screen which will run through your customer database and select out all of those with an outstanding balance, then open Microsoft Word with a mailmerge document already opened and linked to the selected customers. We could write some VBA code to do this. Although you don't need to be a brain surgeon to program in VBA, it's quite a learning curve for someone who has never used it before, so most people prefer to get help on this kind of thing. Note that VBA is not the same thing as VB.net (?) or Visual Basic. |
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