Mastering Excel 2003 programming with VBA by Steven M. Hansen

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By Steven M. Hansen

Excel 2003, in addition to VBA, XML, and different applied sciences, is a compelling software improvement platform. This booklet teaches skilled programmers and complex Excel clients tips to create customized enterprise functions with Excel 2003. Incorporating the main worthy wisdom and methods he received via nearly a decade of expertise with VBA and Excel, author/application developer Steven Hansen covers the main conventional Excel gadgets and improvement practices. themes comprise: VBA programming fundamentals, VBA debugging tools/techniques, learning the Excel item version, integrating Excel with different functions, operating with exterior information, designing consumer interfaces, including person personalization, and alertness distribution thoughts.

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Sub DisplayMessage(Message) InfoButtons = vbOKOnly + vbInformation MsgBox Prompt:=Message, Buttons:=InfoButtons End Sub In this example InfoButtons is a variable that contains a value that instructs the MsgBox function which buttons and icon to display. You didn’t need to do anything special to begin using this variable other than come up with a name. In most other programming languages, you’d first need to declare the variable. Conceptually you can think of it as declaring your intention to use the variable.

If you run the procedure now, you’ll get a “Variable Not Defined” compile error and the first offending statement will be high­ lighted. In order to remedy the situation, you need to rewrite the procedure as follows: Sub ImplicitVariablePitfall() Dim DomesticInvestments Dim ForeignInvestments Dim TotalInvestment DomesticInvestments = InputBox("Enter domestic investment amount") ForeignInvestments = InputBox("Enter foreign investment amount") TotalInvestment = DomesticInvestments + ForiegnInvestments MsgBox "The total investment = " & TotalInvestment End Sub If you attempt to run this code (the spelling error is still present) a compile error occurs and the misspelled variable is highlighted.

9 This page intentionally left blank Chapter 2 Getting to Know Your Environment Before you can start writing any serious code, you need to learn your way around the devel­ opment environment. In this chapter, you’ll examine the various aspects and features of the Visual Basic Editor (VBE). The VBE includes many features that do an excellent job of easing beginning developers into programming and helping experienced developers become more productive. Personally, I have always disliked these kinds of chapters because I am always so eager to get on to the good stuff.

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