1. AC C E S S DATA B A S E T U TO R I A L
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AC C E S S DATA B A S E T U TO R I A L
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Microsoft
Access
VBA vs
MACRO
A common question often asked: Would it be a
good idea for me to use Microsoft access macros or would it be advisable to use Microsoft Access VBA code instead?
You should base your choice to use either Microsoft access macros or MS access VBA
code with two initial concerns:
Security
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2. Usefulness that you require.
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Usefulness that you require.
Macros are considered to be easier to learn than VBA and in most cases it’s probably
faster to create a macro than it is to write VBA code.People tend to consider Macros
because VBA code is perceived to be more programmatic, offering a variety of options
that appear confusing and time consuming to understand. It’s generally a steeper learning curve!
To help guarantee the security of your database, you should attempt to utilise MS access
macros as the rst conceivable opportunity and only turn to VBA programming just for
operations that can’t be pro ciently used by utilising a macro action call.
Besides, you should attempt to utilise MS access macro actions that doesn’t require or
allow permission calls to the database so it will run. Implementing and utilising Microsoft access macros along these lines enables your clients to be sure that the database does
not contain any programming code that could damage information or different
documents on their PCs.
To encompass the more extensive utilisation of macros, Microsoft Access 2016 contains
numerous new MS access macros that enable you to manufacture more effective macros than you can work by utilising better compared to the prior versions of MS Access VBA that can be used to perform any operation that a macro can perform. VBA also allows you to perform a multitude of more advanced operations to include the following:
Incorporate error-handling modules to assist in the running of your applications.
Integrate Word and Excel features in your database
Present users with professional forms-based layouts to interface with your database
Process data in the background Create multi-purpose forms Perform conditional looping
When you add programming automation to an object or control, you ought to consider
a speci c order of approach:
A MS access macro containing just activities that don’t require giving some level of trust
to the database in order to run
MS access macro containing activities that do require a level of trust in status to the database in order to run
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VBA methodologies -consideration
People new to Access are tempted to use macros to automate their Access Database
Applications in the notion that learning and using Access Visual Basic for Applications
(VBA) would be much more dif cult and time-consuming.
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