Microsoft Word exposes nearly all of its functionality through its programming language, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and its object model. This no-nonsense book delves into VBA programming and tells how you can use VBA to automate all the tedious, repetitive jobs you never thought you could do in Microsoft Word. It takes the reader step-by-step through writing VBA macros and programs, illustrating for example, how to generate tables of a particular format, manage shortcut keys, create fax cover sheets, and reformat documents. This book specifically focuses on:
- The Visual Basic Editor and the Word VBA programming environment (Word features a complete and very powerful integrated development environment for writing, running, testing, and debugging VBA macros)
- The VBA programming language (which is the same programming language used by Microsoft Excel, Access, and PowerPoint, as well as the retail editions of Visual Basic)
- The essential of the almost 200 objects found in the Word object model (which allows Word to be controlled programmatically using VBA)