OFF97: Programmatically Activating the Visual Basic Editor

• Microsoft Office 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
• Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

You can programmatically switch to the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor from a Microsoft Office 97 program. This article includes macro examples that switch to Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications.

MORE INFORMATION

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In the first two examples, the MainWindow property returns a windows object that represents the main window of the Microsoft Visual Basic environment. The SetFocus method moves the focus to the object that is returned by the MainWindow property.

Microsoft Excel 97

   Sub ShowExcelVBE()
      Application.VBE.MainWindow.SetFocus
   End Sub

Microsoft Powerpoint 97

   Sub ShowPpntVBE()
     Application.VBE.MainWindow.SetFocus
   End Sub

Microsoft Word 97

In the following example, the ShowVisualBasicEditor property switches to Microsoft Visual Basic.

   Sub ShowWordVBE()
      Application.ShowVisualBasicEditor = True
   End Sub

REFERENCES

For more information about the ShowVisualBasicEditor property, click the Index tab in Microsoft Visual Basic Help, type the following text

   ShowVisualBasicEditor