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This MSAccess tutorial explains the VBA environment in Access 2003 (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).
See solution in other versions of MSAccess:
What is VBA?
This is what the VBA environment looks like in Microsoft Access 2003:
VBA standards for Visual Basic for Applications and is the language embedded within your Access database.
You use VBA whenever you do one of the following:
- Create a new function.
- Create a new subroutine.
- Define a global variable.
- Place code behind an event procedure such as the 'On Click' event of a command button.
- Execute the RunCode action in a macro.
Visual Basic Code Examples For Access Point
These are just some of the examples of when you might be running VBA code.