Access Tutorial: VBA Basics in Access 2003/XP/2000/97 (page 1 of 7)

What is VBA?

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.