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MS Access 2003: VBA Environment Introduction

This MSAccess tutorial explains the VBA environment in Access 2003 (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).

What is VBA?

This is what the VBA environment looks like in Microsoft Access 2003:

Microsoft Access

VBA standards for Visual Basic for Applications and is the language embedded within your Access database.

You use VBA whenever you do one of the following:

  1. Create a new function.
  2. Create a new subroutine.
  3. Define a global variable.
  4. Place code behind an event procedure such as the "On Click" event of a command button.
  5. Execute the RunCode action in a macro.

These are just some of the examples of when you might be running VBA code.