Microsoft Word 2007: VBA Programming

Course Overview

This course is suitable for experienced Word users. Experience of other programming languages is useful but not essential.

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Audience

Experienced MS Word users

Course Outline

Macros

• Overview of macros
• Recording a new macro
• Inserting extra steps
• Deleting steps
• Attaching a macro to a button
• Customising a button

VBA Editor overview

• The user interface
• Toolbars and menus
• The Project Explorer
• The Object browser
• The Properties window

VBA essentials

• Modular programming
• Creating sub routines
• Handling arguments
• Creating functions
• Functions that return a value
• Adding comments

Storing data

• Declaring variables
• Overview of data types
• Storing text
• Storing numbers
• Storing dates

Programming structures

• Overview of control structures
• Using conditional expressions
• Logical operators
• Using looping structures
• Breaking out of a loop

Word objects

• Word documents
• The active document
• Opening windows
• The Range object
• The Selection object
• Manipulating text