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MS Excel 2003: VBA Environment Introduction

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

What is VBA?

The Microsoft Visual Basic window displays your VBA environment in Excel 2003:

VBA standards for Visual Basic for Applications and is the language embedded within your spreadsheet in Excel 2003.

You use VBA in Excel whenever you do one of the following:

1. Record a macro.
2. Run a macro.
3. Create a new function.
4. Create a new subroutine.
5. Define a variable.
6. Place code on the click of a button.

These are just some of the examples of when you might be running VBA code in Excel 2003.