Macro’sWithin excel

Most functionality can be driven from VBAVBA is the programming language that runs inside of excel. It uses visual basic as the core as it stands for visual basic application.

Printing with VBA

Sub CreatePrint() Dim answer As Integer answer = MsgBox("Are you sure you want to print sheet?", vbYesNo + vbQuestion, "Print Sheet") If answer = vbYes Then ActiveSheet.PrintOut Else 'do nothing End If End Sub

Printing with VBA

Sub CreatePrint()

This part creates the sub-routine CreatePrint()

Printing with VBA

Dim answer As Integer

We are now defining answer as an integer.

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answer = MsgBox("Are you sure you want to print sheet?", vbYesNo + vbQuestion, "Print Sheet")

We then are saying that the value of answer is equal to a response from a MsgBox (a pop-up dialog).

Printing with VBA

If answer = vbYes Then

ActiveSheet.PrintOut

Else

'do nothing

End If

We now need to make sure the users meant to print and we can do so with their response and this if statement.

It checks to see if the dialog response was yes and if it was, it prints the sheet.

If it was no, it does nothing. The “’do nothing” is a comment, this is not actually processed it just helps us.

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End Sub

Then we end the subroutine so the computer does not get confused between all the Macro’s code.