Microsoft Excel has an option to program the repitative task.
A VBA is Visual Basic for Applications, a programming language made by Microsoft. VBA language is part of the Microsoft Excel program, so when one is creating with Excel, they are creating VBA. You can make lists or graph, invoices, forecasts and reports with Excel.
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First a person will need the right software to get started with VBA in microsoft excel. Then a person needs to know the different types of languages of VBA just to start out.
One common example is Microsoft 'Excel' - VBA is used for writing and editing macros in spreadsheets.
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VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications. Visual Basic is a computer programming language. Using VBA you can write commands (a macro) which execute when run. This can be very useful (particularly if you want to automate repetitive, frequent and time consuming tasks in Excel for example).
You can press Alt + F11 on Microsoft Excel to go to Visual Basic Editor where you can type code to automate various task. You need to have prior programming knowledge to do so.
Excel has a variation of Visual BASIC built into it, called Visual BASIC for Applications, commonly called VBA. The advantage of using VBA is that it greatly enhances what you can do with Excel. It gives you greater power to do things with Excel that are difficult or impossible with Excel formulas. It can help automate tasks by creating simple macros. It brings the powers of programming to Excel.The main disadvantage is the complexity of VBA if you are not familiar with it. It takes time to learn how to use it, and even then it can be complicated to get it to do what you want. If you have knowledge of Visual BASIC that will help, but there are aspects of VBA that are especially for working with Excel. There is the danger to ruining your data if you do something wrong with VBA.
It's possible that Excel was written in C.
Object-Oriented languages
I would say that there is no differences between Excel VBA and Access VBA. VBA is the acronym for visual basic for application and is the common language for the office suite. Excel vba gives you a native access to excel object (eg a worksheet, a cell, a range, etc.) but object of other applications can be made accessible via configuration (references). Access vba gives you a native access to access object.
No, Visual Basic is a program on its own too, used to create programs. VBA is used in Excel and other programs (Visual Basic for Applications).