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VBA 5.0 was launched in 1997 along with all of MS Office 97 products. The only exception for this was Outlook 97 which used VBScript. VBA 6.0 and VBA 6.1 were launched in 1999, notably with support for COM add-ins in Office 2000. VBA 6.2 was released alongside Office 2000 SR-1.
It was replaced by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) when Word 97 was released. [1] Contrarily to VBA, WordBasic was not object-oriented but consisted of a flat list of approximately 900 commands. [2]
Although Excel nominally works with 8-byte numbers by default, VBA has a variety of data types. The Double data type is 8 bytes, the Integer data type is 2 bytes, and the general purpose 16 byte Variant data type can be converted to a 12 byte Decimal data type using the VBA conversion function CDec. [12]
VBA was restored in the next version, Mac Excel 2011, [30] although the build lacks support for ActiveX objects, impacting some high level developer tools. [31] A common and easy way to generate VBA code is by using the Macro Recorder. [32] The Macro Recorder records actions of the user and generates VBA code in the form of a macro.
It allows the user to set break points in the VBScript code but the user interface is more than clumsy. There are VBScript debuggers available from third-party sources, [17] [18] and many text editors offer syntax highlighting for the language.
Although OpenOffice Basic is similar to other dialects of BASIC, such as Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the application programming interface (API) is very different, as the example below of a macro illustrates. While there is a much easier way to obtain the "paragraph count" document property, the example shows the ...
Instead, text is syntax checked by an independent syntax checker in the IDE as you type. The syntax checker shares code with the visual studio code completion feature, not the VBA compiler. 218.214.18.240 06:05, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Visual Basic is a name for a family of programming languages from Microsoft. It may refer to: Visual Basic (.NET), the current version of Visual Basic launched in 2002 which runs on .NET