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Christian InTech Articles - Computers
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Computer Straining Your Eyes? Here's How to Prevent it!
Whilst our lives have become dependent on computers, our bodies
haven't quite accepted the idea. Every day computer users
complain of blurred vision, tired eyes, gritty eyes and
headaches. Many start to wear eye glasses and blame...
How to Create an Emergency Repair Disk
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Setting Up An Internet Connection
Setting Up An Internet Connection Without loss of sanity and privacy Robb Kimmer I know so many people who seem to have a lot of problems when they try setting up an Internet connection. Some are unfortunate enough to have been the victim of the...
The Top 10 Reasons You Need A Computer Point of Sale System For Your Business
10. If you have employees, you need a point of sale system.
If you have employees you are open to theft, sweet-hearting and careless mistakes. You need a point of sale system to manage your employees, enforce your policies and insure that your...
Understanding Sleep and Hibernate Power Settings on your Computer
New computers come with two new power settings that may be
unfamiliar to many people. The settings known as "sleep" and
"hibernate" may sound fun and playful but can actually be
powerful tools to extend the life of your computer, give...
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You Can Automate Your Microsoft Office in About 60 Minutes
Microsoft Office program is a programming tool called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that comes with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, and Publisher. VBA can make your repeating jobs automatic. It also can customize Excel, Word and other Office procedures for your own needs. From Office version 2000, all the Office programs are equipped with VBA.
Hand-On experience is the key to be a good programmer. Programming tutorials are the easier way to learn any computer programs including VBA. For example, a tutorial can show people how to use VBA to automate (make automatic) an Excel routine like updating the fonts and sizes for a range of cells, or automatically pops up a calendar for selecting a date. VBA can also be used as a tool to automate Word mail-merge or create a text file from a Word document. VBA can even be used as a tool to automate email alert in the Outlook Inbox or scheduling task to do.
VBA can make one application like Excel work with another application like Word and Outlook, or any other combination. To make Excel work or control Word is called Excel automates Word. Likewise, Word works with or controls Outlook is called Word automates Outlook.
There can be many applications of automation that was introduced in the previous paragraph. For example, we can write a VBA application to make Word read an Excel address list that is saved in a spreadsheet, and then show the addresses in the Word
document. Also, we can write an application to use Word to automate Outlook for reading the contact and any other data in the Contact or other folders. Or, we can use Outlook to read in Word or Excel scheduling list and use it to schedule tasks in Outlook.
Writing VBA programs is quite straightforward and can be learned in a short period, providing that there are tutorials that are well organized and illustrated with many pictures. After going through a few tutorials, the learner can explore on himself or herself the other possibilities with the programming. Learning programming is not as hard as people think. Rather it can be a fun experience to see the programs work.
Besides we need to be good at writing programs, keeping our Windows and Office up-to-date is as important. Please remember to visit Microsoft website to do automatic Windows and Office Update at least once a month, which will assure you have the newest fixes and updates.
There are a few free VBA learning tutorials at www.Viccompinc.com. If you would like to learn beyond the free tutorials, you can sponsor us with the other low cost tutorials. You can also request a tutorial for your own needs with the request entry of the Contact page.
About the Author
Tenny Ing is a business application programmer for the past 18 years, and has been programming in Microsoft softwares like Visual Basic, Access Sql Server, Crystal Report and other Microsoft products.
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