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MS Excel 2011 for Mac: VBA Environment Introduction

This Excel tutorial explains the VBA environment in Excel 2011 for Mac (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).

What is VBA?

The Visual Basic editor displays your VBA environment in Excel 2011:

VBA standards for Visual Basic for Applications and is the language embedded within your spreadsheet in Excel 2011.

You can only use VBA if you have saved your workbook as an Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook (or *.xlsm file).

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 2011.