Excel Visual Basic Variables, Part 2: Declaring and Naming Variables, Scope and Lifetime
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In an earlier post, we recorded two Excel macros in Visual Basic, and ran them. Then, in the next post, we viewed the code in the Excel Visual Basic Editor. Code you have recorded will usually run. However, you may want to change it for all sorts of reasons. To tidy it up, make it…
This is from Microsoft Excel 2000 Visual Basic Help, with changes and additions. All arguments are passed to procedures by reference, unless you specify otherwise. This is efficient because all arguments passed by reference take the same amount of time to pass and the same amount of space (4 bytes) within a procedure regardless of…
Here is a function that displays the formula in another cell: FORMULATEXT(reference). The argument, “reference”, is the cell address that contains the formula you want to display. This is most useful for documentation purposes. For example, when you want to print out a spreadsheet with its formulas. If you have spent much time on this…
1. What are Controls? First, some terminology. If you wanted to run a macro from a worksheet, you could create a button on the worksheet for the user to click. Such a button is a Control. There are many types of controls, which we will use in a later post. Apart from Command Buttons to…
This is from Microsoft Excel 2000 Visual Basic Help, with changes and additions. A Function procedure is a series of Visual Basic statements enclosed by the Function and End Function statements. A Function procedure is like a Sub procedure, but a function can also return a value. A Function procedure can take arguments, such as…