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OFF2001: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Article ID: 274705

Article Last Modified on 7/18/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Excel 2001 for Mac
Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 for Mac
Microsoft Word 2001 for Mac

This article was previously published under Q274705

For a Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition version of this article, see 163435.
For a Microsoft Office 2000 version of this article, see 226118.

SUMMARY

This article lists some of the resources that are available to help you learn Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications programming. The article contains the following categories:

Online Help
Use the Object Browser
Microsoft Press and Third-Party Reference and Learning Materials
Microsoft Knowledge Base on the World Wide Web
Helpful Knowledge Base Articles
Internet Newsgroups
Other Web Resources

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Online Help

Use the Excel Office Assistant. On the Help menu, click Microsoft Excel Help. In the Assistant balloon, type the name of an object, method, or property, and then click Search.
Use the Visual Basic Office Assistant. On the Help menu, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help. In the Assistant balloon, type the name of an object, method, or property, and then click Search.
Press F1. Double-click a word in the module sheet, and then press F1 to open Help for that object, method, or property.

Use the Object Browser

The Object Browser allows you to browse through all available objects in your project and see their properties, methods, and events. In addition, you can see the procedures and constants that are available from object libraries in your project. You can easily display online Help as you browse. You can use the Object Browser to find and use objects that you create, as well as objects from other programs.

You can get help for the Object Browser by searching for Object Browser in Help.

To navigate the Object Browser, follow these steps:

Activate a module.
From the View menu, select Object Browser (F2), or click Object Browser on the toolbar.
Select the name of the project or library that you want to view in the Project/Library list.
Use the Class list to select the class; use the Member list to select specific members of your class or project.
View information about the class or member that you selected in the Details section at the bottom of the window.
Use the Help button to display the Help topic for the class or member that you selected.

Microsoft Press and Third-Party Reference and Learning Materials

Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information.

   Microsoft Office
   ----------------

   Title:     Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Language Reference
   Author:    Microsoft Corporation
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      May 7, 1999
   ISBN:      1-57231-955-0
   Pages:     7040
   Disk:      N/A
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2321.htm

   Title:     Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide
   Author:    David Shank, Mark Roberts, Tamra Myers
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      May 7, 1999
   ISBN:      1-57231-952-6
   Pages:     976
   Disk:      1 CD
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2320.htm


   Microsoft Excel
   ---------------

   Title:     Running Microsoft Excel 2000
   Author:    Mark Dodge and Craig Stinson
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      May 7,1999
   ISBN:      1-57231-935-6
   Pages:     1024
   Disk:      N/A
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2050.htm

   Title:     Microsoft Excel 2000/Visual Basic for Applications
              Fundamentals
   Author:    Reed Jacobson
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      May 7, 1999
   ISBN:      1-7356-0593-9
   Pages:     368
   Disk:      1 CD
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2534.htm

   Title:     Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Language Reference
   Author:    Microsoft Corporation
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      May 7, 1999
   ISBN:      1-57231-955-0
   Pages:     7040
   Disk:      N/A
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2321.htm


   Microsoft Outlook
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   Title:     Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Language Reference
   Author:    Microsoft Corporation
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      May 7, 1999
   ISBN:      1-57231-955-0
   Pages:     7040
   Disk:      N/A
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2321.htm

   Title:     Running Microsoft Outlook 2000
   Author:    Alan Neibauer
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      May 7, 1999
   ISBN:      1-57231-939-9
   Pages:     752
   Disk:      NA
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2052.htm

   Microsoft PowerPoint
   --------------------

   Title:     Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Language Reference
   Author:    Microsoft Corporation
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      May 7, 1999
   ISBN:      1-57231-955-0
   Pages:     7040
   Disk:      N/A
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2321.htm


   Microsoft Word
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   Title:     Running Microsoft Word 2000
   Author:    Charles Rubin
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      May 7,1999
   ISBN:      1-57231-943-7  
   Pages:     960
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2054.htm


   Microsoft Visual Basic
   ----------------------

   Title:     Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Language Reference
   Author:    Microsoft Corporation
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      May 7, 1999
   ISBN:      1-57231-955-0
   Pages:     7040
   Disk:      N/A
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2321.htm

   Title:     Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange
   Author:    Thomas Rizzo
   Publisher: Microsoft Press
   Date:      March 10, 1999
   ISBN:      0-7356-0509-2
   Includes:  1 
   Web Site:  http://mspress.microsoft.com/books/2364.htm

Microsoft Knowledge Base on the World Wide Web

Many articles in the Knowledge Base contain sample code for common Visual Basic for Applications solutions. The advantage of accessing the articles online is that you can copy the code from your browser and paste it into a module. This saves you the time it would take to manually type the code.

To access the Microsoft Knowledge Base on the World Wide Web, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=kbinfo

For additional information about how to use the Microsoft Knowledge Base, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

129725 Obtaining Knowledge Base Articles on the World Wide Web

Microsoft Office

222791 PPT2000: Sample Code to Get Input from an Office Assistant

253235 FILE: OFFAUTMN.EXE Discusses Office 97 and 2000 Automation and Provides Sample Code

210143 ACC2000: Tips for Debugging Visual Basic for Applications Code

212673 WD2000: Troubleshooting Variables and Data Types

210111 ACC2000: Using Microsoft Access as an Automation Server

210588 ACC2000: How to Parse Comma-Separated Text into Multiple Fields

Microsoft Excel

213578 XL2000: How to Assign a Macro to an ActiveX Worksheet Control

211563 XL2000: How to Create an Add-in File

213550 XL2000: Sample Macros for Customizing Menus and Submenus

213763 XL2000: How to Programmatically Create a Collection

Microsoft PowerPoint

222771 PPT2000: Introduction to Macro Programming in PowerPoint 2000

222758 PPT2000: How to Use the Presentations.Open Method

222790 PPT2000: Sample Code to Display the Selection Type

222768 PPT2000: Sample Code to Assign a Random Animation to All Objects

Microsoft Word

212682 WD2000: VBA Macro Examples to Insert Text into a Document

212710 WD2000: Retrieving Settings from Word Dialog Boxes Using OLE

201950 WD2000: Sample Code to Scroll to Top or Bottom of Document Window

Internet Newsgroups

Click the following link for a list of peer-to-peer newsgroups that are available to help you interact with other users of Visual Basic for Applications:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/isv/Bb190538.aspx

For more information about Microsoft Internet newsgroups, please visit the following Microsoft World Wide Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/default.mspx