Unfortunately, in some states (Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Massachusetts, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and South Dakota) only a small number of reporters responded to our survey. Hence while interpreting the results from these states we should be cautious.
(March 2013) Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6, which was discontinued in 2008, and its associated integrated development environment (IDE).
1 VBA controls a program like Microsoft Excel or Word by means of writing and running a procedure which is also referred to as a macro. 2  In order to command a program effectively using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the program's operational capabilities must be well understood along with its program elements. VBA on the other hand is very easy to operate and learn and can be used as a jumping off point to get into VB.NET once you have used it for a bit. 2  VBA is used to control a program's functionality automating hundreds of tasks at once, performing calculations...etc.