Re: Learning Visual Basic

From: Howard Kaikow (kaikow_at_standards.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:34:32 -0400

"Matthew" <turn.deletethis@alltel.net> wrote in message
news:eGISeJboEHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > The code at
> >
> >> http://www.a1vbcode.com/app.asp?ID=1684
> >
> > is VB 6 code that requires Visual Basic 6 to run. I've not checked the
> > details, but the code likely could be converted to VBA,
>
> Thanks.
>
> So, I need a software called Visual Basic 6 to modify/run that code?

No, you should be able to adapt the code to run in VBA
Depends on your final goal whether you will be better off using VB or VBA.

> And,
> this is different from Microsoft Visual Basic 6.3 that came with Office
> 2003?

The VB in Office is better called VBA.
In general, VBA is sort of a subset of VB plus, for each Office app, app
specific object model.

Each Office app can also be programmed from VB 6.

Which method is better depends on what you want to do.

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