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VBA Automation for Excel 2019 Cookbook

You're reading from   VBA Automation for Excel 2019 Cookbook Solutions to automate routine tasks and increase productivity with Excel and other MS Office applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789610031
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with VBA 2. Chapter 2: Working with the VBA Editor FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: The VBA Object Model 4. Chapter 4: Working with Procedures 5. Chapter 5: Next Level Recording 6. Chapter 6: VBA Language Elements 7. Chapter 7: Working with Ranges 8. Chapter 8: Using Functions 9. Chapter 9: Implementing Program Flow 10. Chapter 10: Implementing Automation 11. Chapter 11: Handling Errors 12. Chapter 12: Debugging 13. Chapter 13: Creating and Modifying Dialog Boxes 14. Chapter 14: Creating UserForms 15. Chapter 15: UserForm Controls 16. Chapter 16: Creating Custom Functions 17. Chapter 17: Creating Word Documents with Excel VBA 18. Chapter 18: Working with PowerPoint in Excel VBA 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Executing Sub procedures directly

Having created a Sub procedure is a waste of time if it doesn't make your life easier. Instead of creating a table manually, you want the Sub procedure to do the work automatically.

So, how do you get the Sub procedure to work? You run it, or execute it. Whether you call it by running the code or executing the code makes no difference. All you want to do is to get the code to do what it was supposed to do.

In this recipe, we will be investigating one specific way of executing a Sub procedure. It is not better or faster, it's just one of about ten different ways in which we can run a Sub procedure.

Getting ready

Make sure that you are still in the code window that contains the procedure we created in the previous section.

How to do it…

To execute a Sub procedure directly, do the following:

  1. Click anywhere in the code window of the procedure you want to run.
  2. Press Run | Run Sub/Userform. (The keyboard shortcut...
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