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VBA Automation for Excel 2019 Cookbook

By : Mike Van Niekerk
Book Image

VBA Automation for Excel 2019 Cookbook

By: Mike Van Niekerk

Overview of this book

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming language developed by Microsoft to automate tasks in MS Office applications. This book will help you to focus on the essential aspects of your role by automating mundane tasks in Excel and other Office applications. With comprehensive coverage of VBA delivered in the form of practice problems and bite-sized recipes, this book will help you to hit the ground running. Unlike most books that assume prior programming experience, this book starts with the fundamentals and gradually progresses to solving bigger problems. You’ll start by becoming familiar with VBA so that you can start recording macros right away. With this foundation in place, you’ll advance to using the full capabilities of the language as you apply loops, functions, and custom dialog boxes to design your own automation programs. You'll also get to grips with embedded macros and other advanced tools to enhance productivity and explore topics relating to app performance and security. Throughout this VBA book, you’ll cover multiple practice projects in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint while exploring tips and best practices to hone your skills. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to use VBA to create your own programs that control MS Office applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Executing Sub procedures directly

Having created a Sub procedure is a waste of time if it doesn't make your life easier. Instead of creating a table manually, you want the Sub procedure to do the work automatically.

So, how do you get the Sub procedure to work? You run it, or execute it. Whether you call it by running the code or executing the code makes no difference. All you want to do is to get the code to do what it was supposed to do.

In this recipe, we will be investigating one specific way of executing a Sub procedure. It is not better or faster, it's just one of about ten different ways in which we can run a Sub procedure.

Getting ready

Make sure that you are still in the code window that contains the procedure we created in the previous section.

How to do it…

To execute a Sub procedure directly, do the following:

  1. Click anywhere in the code window of the procedure you want to run.
  2. Press Run | Run Sub/Userform. (The keyboard shortcut...