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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 Function procedures by calling from a Sub procedure

In this last recipe, we will be calling the Function procedure from a Sub procedure. Once again, unless we call a Function procedure directly in Excel, the only other way to execute it is to call it from a Sub procedure.

Getting ready

Press Alt + F11 to activate the VBA Editor.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to create a Sub procedure to call the Exponent Function procedure:

  1. Under the last procedure in the code window, type the following code:
    Sub CallSample()
        Result = Exponent(5, 2)
        MsgBox Result
    End Sub
  2. Save the file, and then press F5 to run the procedure.

How it works…

Function procedures cannot be executed like standard procedures. You cannot even execute it by running it as a macro. The only way to run a function is to use it in the Excel spreadsheet like a built-in function, or to call it from another procedure. That...