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Title: visual basic for applications, where to go for resources and solved examples?
Post by: urlwolf on February 26, 2012, 11:49 AM

I have to use visual basic for applications on word. Does anyone know a good forum, QA site (other than stackOverflow), or blogs? Looks like vba is a dying breed. An irc channel would be ideal.

Title: Re: visual basic for applications, where to go for resources and solved examples?
Post by: mahesh2k on February 26, 2012, 12:38 PM

Tried visualbasic.about.com? They do have some snippets here and there. Other than that Codeproject ? or codeplex for sample code?

Title: Re: visual basic for applications, where to go for resources and solved examples?
Post by: steeladept on February 26, 2012, 12:59 PM

I just typed in VBA Programming and got a ton of hits.  I even found this one:  irc.netsplit.de/channels/?chat=visual+basic

Can't guarantee it is exactly what you are looking for, but it seems to fit the bill.  (I am behind a firewall right now and can't connect to IRC to verify).

Title: Re: visual basic for applications, where to go for resources and solved examples?
Post by: app103 on February 26, 2012, 02:21 PM

Microsoft has their own VBA forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/isvvba/threads

Title: Re: visual basic for applications, where to go for resources and solved examples?
Post by: AndyM on February 26, 2012, 03:47 PM

try VBA Express

http://www.vbaexpress.com/

Title: Re: visual basic for applications, where to go for resources and solved examples?
Post by: urlwolf on February 26, 2012, 04:41 PM

Thanks for the pointers guys (and gal)!

Title: Re: visual basic for applications, where to go for resources and solved examples?
Post by: kfitting on February 26, 2012, 06:04 PM

The late Shauna Kelly's site.  Not all about VBA, but tons of information: http://www.shaunakelly.com/ (http://www.shaunakelly.com/)
MVPS Site (click on navigation tab to get VBA specific stuff)... lots of good stuff here: http://word.mvps.org/index.html (http://word.mvps.org/index.html)
Arranged a little weird, but lots of good tips on Word VBA here: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.html (http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.html)
Another site... not sure of it's usefullness: http://www.gmayor.com/Word_pages.htm (http://www.gmayor.com/Word_pages.htm)


Some of this stuff (mostly about styles, but VBA comes up, plus maybe more that you'd find interesting) can be found in this topic:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=15448.0 (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=15448.0)

Title: Re: visual basic for applications, where to go for resources and solved examples?
Post by: daddydave on February 27, 2012, 09:36 PM

Don't laugh, I am going to recommend a book written for Office 2000, that just happens to have never been updated for the three later versions of Office. Ok, go ahead and laugh now. The book is Microsoft Office 2000 Visual Basic for Applications Fundamentals (http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Applications-Fundamentals-Developer-Learning/dp/0735605947/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330399566&sr=1-2) by David Boctor. It is very no-nonsense and gives short practical examples that are right to the point: it's what the help file should have been (although it is very basic).