VBA Environment in MS Access: An Introduction

VBA Environment in MS Access

This MSAccess tutorial explains the VBA environment in Access (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).

What is VBA?

This is what the VBA environment looks like in Microsoft Access:

VBA standards for Visual Basic for Applications and is the language embedded within your database in Access.

You use VBA whenever you do one of the following:

1. Create a new function.
2. Create a new subroutine.
3. Define a global variable.
4. Place code behind an event procedure such as the “On Click” event of a command button.
5. Execute the RunCode action in a macro.

These are just some of the examples of when you might be running VBA code.