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By Dan Mabbutt, About.com Guide to Visual Basic since 2002

VBA Tutorial Upgraded

Friday September 17, 2004

I recently received a request for help with a Word macro that eventually resulted in reviewing and rewriting much of the Intermediate VBA tutorial at About Visual Basic. You can sign up for the complete tutorial at this link.

Those of you who still use and like VB 6 will still like the latest version of VBA that is used in Office. It's called VB 6.3 but not that much has changed. One thing that has changed is the documentation and that, in an interesting way, makes it yet another upgrade path to VB.NET. Microsoft has taken essentially the same system, VBA, and recast all of their terminology as .NET. And everyone knows that if you conquer the language, you have a running start on success!.

Automating Find and Replace in a Word VBA Macro

While I was revising the VBA course, I also added a new feature to the Word section of the course. Many of us learn best simply by trying out sample code. So, while I was working on an answer to a question about automating Find and Replace, I added the resulting code - along with a complete explanation of what it does and a download of the source.

If you want to see the result, you can go directly to it at this link. Let me know what you think of this idea!

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