LANGUAGE REFERENCE VBA

Welcome to the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language reference for Office. This reference contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on VBA.

Note Interested in developing solutions that extend the Office experience across multiple platforms? Check out the new Office Add-ins model.

• Getting Started with VBA in Office: Provides insight into how VBA programming can help to customize Office solutions.
• What's New for VBA in Office 2016: Lists the new VBA language elements for Office 2016.

The documentation provided in this reference includes the following:

• Microsoft Forms reference
  Provides information about Userforms and controls, and how to program with them by using Visual Basic.
• Visual Basic conceptual topics
  Provides information to help you understand Visual Basic programming.
• Visual Basic definitions
  Provides a glossary of definitions to help you understand concepts presented in this documentation.
• Visual Basic how-to topics
  Describes useful common procedures (for example, how to use the Object Browser or how to set Visual Basic Environment options).
• Visual Basic language reference
  Provides documentation about Visual Basic the language: all its methods, properties, statements, functions, operators, and objects.
• Visual Basic add-in model
  Describes how to customize the Visual Basic editor, and provides documentation for the object model that enables you to extend the environment.
• Visual Basic user interface Help
  Describes user interface elements of the Visual Basic Editor, such as commands, dialog boxes, windows, and toolbars.