INFO: VBA Versions in Different Microsoft Products
Article ID: 142292
Article Last Modified on 12/9/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition
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SUMMARY
Visual Basic, Applications edition, is the core language technology behind
Visual Basic 4.0 and many other Microsoft applications. Because product
cycles vary, the latest version of each application may use a different
version of Visual Basic, Applications edition, each with possible
differences in features and syntax. In addition, some Microsoft
applications still use proprietary macro languages, and while mechanisms
usually exist to communicate with Visual Basic for Applications
applications, these methods often vary.
MORE INFORMATION
Current Microsoft Applications with Visual Basic, Applications Edition
Product Visual Basic for Applications Version
Microsoft Excel 5.0 1.0
Microsoft Excel 95 1.0
Microsoft Project 4.0 1.0
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 2.0
Microsoft Access 95 2.0
Visual Basic, Applications edition version 2.0, includes support for many
new features. All versions of Visual Basic prior to version 4.0 use an
internal language engine, and do not use Visual Basic for Applications.
Microsoft Access (up to version 2.0) uses a macro language called Access
Basic, and Microsoft Word's macro language (up to and including Word 95) is
named WordBasic. These languages have some similarities to Visual Basic for
Applications, but remain different in many ways also.
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