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Input Box and Msgbox

Sub hello()
yourName = InputBox("Please enter your name)
Msgbox "Hello" & yourName
End Sub
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With a variable
Sub hello()
Dim username As String declare variable
username = InputBox("Please enter your name")
MsgBox "Hello " & username
End Sub
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Variable names

Examples of invalid names

Examples of valid
are:
variables are:
4thjuly - starts with a number
City
/ - invalid character
CustomerCity
hello john - contains a space
Customer_City
Sham69
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Declaring variables
Option Explicit
Sub DemoMacro()
Dim numWorkers As Integer
Dim salesRegion As String
Dim nextFinYear As Date
Dim Enrolled As Boolean

numWorkers = 571
salesRegion = "North West" If Option
nextFinYear = #4/1/2017# 'date note US format Explicit is at
Enrolled = True top of
module,
MsgBox "Number of Workers:" & numWorkers & vbNewLine _ variables
& "Sales Region: " & salesRegion & vbNewLine _ must be
& "Financial Year end: " & nextFinYear & vbNewLine _ Dimmed
& "Enrolment status: " & Enrolled

End Sub
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Simple macro to add numbers and output

result
Sub Example1()
'declare variables
Dim x as integer, y as integer, z as
integer

' assign values to variables

x = 3
y = 4
z = x + y

' output result

Msgbox z
End sub

This program is very limited because the numbers are hard-

coded (fixed within the program). You could read in a
number from an input box.
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Macro to input a number, double it and

output result
use InputBox to get input
Sub EnterNumbers ()

Dim num as Integer

num = InputBox("Enter number under 5000", _
"Enter numeric data")
num = num * 2
MsgBox "The number multiplied by two is " & num

End Sub
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Double number in a cell

read and write from/to cells
Sub readWriteCells ()
num = Range(A1).Value
num = num * 2
Range(B1).Value = num
MsgBox A1 times 2 is & num
End Sub

Sub readWriteCells2 () shows you dont need a variable

Range(B1).Value = Range(A1).Value * 2
End Sub
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Arithmetical operators
Operator Operation Example Answer

+ Add 5+4 9
- Subtract 7-2 5
* Multiply 3*5 15
/ Divide 10/4 2.5
\ N1 \ N2 - integer division 15\4 3
Mod X Mod Y returns remainder 10 mod 3 1

^ X ^ Y gives the value of X raised to the power of Y 2^3 8

You are more likely to be using variables or range references than literal
numbers:
z=x+y
x=x+y
Range(C3).value = Range(D3).value Range(E3).Value
Activecell.value = activecell.offset(0,1).value /
activecell.offset(0,2).value
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Numeric variable types

VBA type Range of Values
Byte 0 to 255

Integer -32,768 to 32,767

Long -2,147,438,648 to 2,147,438,647

Single -3.402823E38 to -1.401298E-45 for negative values;

1.401298E-45 to 3.402823E38 for positive values

Double -1.79769313486231E308 to -4.94065645841247E-324

for negative values;
4.94065645841247E-324 to 1.79769313486232E308
for positive values

Currency -922,337,203,685,477.5808 to 922,337,203,685,477.5807

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Non-numeric data types

Boolean True or False

Date (in US format)
String Alphanumeric characters
Object Any Object reference
Variant can be object or data type
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Variant is default type

Dim variableName
If no variable type specified, variable is of type Variant
Dim variableName as Variant
Same as above

Dim x, y as Integer
Declares x as a variant, y as an integer
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Concatenate operator
The concatenation operator is & (Shift+7). For example, you can
use it to concatenate a string to a number:
MsgBox "You will be paid " & payrate & " pounds per hour.

There is also + which can only concatenate one string to another

"Manchester " + "United

The following line would cause a run-time error:

MsgBox "You will be paid " +payrate +" pounds per hour.

You cannot use the + operator to concatenate a number to a

string