To get the Visual Basic Editor onscreen in any Office program, select Tools, Macro, Visual Basic Editor. (Note, however, that for simplicity's sake, I use a single Office application ”Excel ”for the examples throughout this chapter.) Figure 2.1 shows the new window that appears.
Figure 2.1. You use the Visual Basic Editor to craft and edit your macros.
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You can also get to the Visual Basic Editor by pressing Alt+F11. In fact, this key combination is a toggle that switches you between the Visual Basic Editor and the underlying application.