VBA can, however, control one application from another using OLE Automation.
However, VBA code normally can only run within a host application, rather than as a standalone program. It can be used to control many aspects of the host application, including manipulating user interface features, such as menus and toolbars, and working with custom user forms or dialog boxes.Īs its name suggests, VBA is closely related to Visual Basic and uses the Visual Basic Runtime Library. It supersedes and expands on the abilities of earlier application-specific macro programming languages such as Word's WordBASIC.
Visual Basic for Applications enables building user-defined functions (UDFs), automating processes and accessing Windows API and other low-level functionality through dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). (The most dreaded language for 2018 was Visual Basic 6). As of 2020, VBA has held its position as "most dreaded" language for developers for 2 years, according to some who participated in surveys undertaken by Stack Overflow. Although pre-.NET Visual Basic is no longer supported or updated by Microsoft, the VBA programming language was upgraded in 2010 with the introduction of Visual Basic for Applications 7 in Microsoft Office applications. Visual Basic for Applications ( VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6, which was declared legacy in 2008, and is an associated integrated development environment (IDE). Have questions or feedback about Office VBA or this documentation? Please see Office VBA support and feedback for guidance about the ways you can receive support and provide feedback.Static/Dynamic Hybrid, Strong/Weak Hybrid The statement following the Else statement runs if the conditions in all of the If and ElseIf statements are False. For example, the following function procedure computes a bonus based on job classification. You can add ElseIf statements to an If.Then.Else statement to test a second condition if the first condition is False. Testing a second condition if the first condition is False Use an If.Then.Else statement to define two blocks of executable statements: one block runs if the condition is True, and the other block runs if the condition is False. Running certain statements if a condition is True and running others if it's False This syntax includes the End If statement, as shown in the following example. To run more than one line of code, you must use the multiple-line syntax.
The following example shows the single-line syntax, omitting the Else keyword. To run only one statement when a condition is True, use the single-line syntax of the If.Then.Else statement. Running statements if a condition is True However, for readability, you may want to use a Select Case statement rather than multiple levels of nested If.Then.Else statements. If.Then.Else statements can be nested to as many levels as you need. You can use the If.Then.Else statement to run a specific statement or a block of statements, depending on the value of a condition.