Welcome to the Visual Basic for Applications language reference for Office 2013

Welcome to the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language reference for Office 2013. This reference contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on VBA.

Initial publication: July 2012 | Updated: November 2012

The documentation provided in this reference includes the following:

• Microsoft Forms reference

  Provides information about Userforms and controls, and how to program with them by using Visual Basic.

• Visual Basic conceptual topics

  Provides information to help you understand Visual Basic programming.

• Visual Basic definitions

  Provides a glossary of definitions to help you understand concepts presented in this documentation.

• Visual Basic how-to topics

  Describes useful common procedures (for example, how to use the Object Browser or how to set Visual Basic Environment options).

• Visual Basic language reference

  Provides documentation about Visual Basic the language: all its methods, properties, statements, functions, operators, and objects.

• Visual Basic add-in model

  Describes how to customize the Visual Basic editor, and provides documentation for the object model that enables you to extend the environment.

• Visual Basic user interface Help

  Describes user interface elements of the Visual Basic Editor, such as commands, dialog boxes, windows, and toolbars.