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Introduction to VBA Day 4

Objectives: You should be able to… …open the Visual Basic Editor and understand the basic components of the editor. …implement a message box. …declare variables. …use conditional statements. …write to a text file using VBA. …understand some basic principles of programming (documentation and indentation).

Opening the VBA editor

Microsoft Visual Basic

Message Box MsgBox(“text” [, buttons] [, title] [helpfile, context])

Our first VBA program (part 1) Goal: Display a message that tells you “hello”. Sub MessageBox() MsgBox(“Hello!”) End Sub

Our first VBA program (part 2) Goal: –Display a message that tells you “hello”. –Title of the message box is “First Program” –The buttons are “Yes” and “No” Sub MessageBox() MsgBox(“Hello!”,vbYesNo,”First Program”) End Sub

Our first VBA program (part 3) Goal: –Change the message box to a yes/no question. –Add to our previous program to give a response to your answer.

Our first VBA program (part 4) Goal: –Modify the last program to output response to the message box to a text file.

Our first VBA program (part 5) Goal: –Modify the last program to output response to the message box to a text file without deleting previous content. –Also output the time and date of the response.