Re: Where can I find reference documentation for Access?

The programming language in Access is Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

It's not a scripting language it's a fully formed procedural language.

You have to be careful with the word macro. I realise that in Word/Excel
etc they refer to VBA code as being synonymous with macros but this is due
to an unfortunate history in the development of coding for these
applications.

In Access a macro is a specific way to automatically carry out user actions,
it does not refer to VBA code.

You can get a lot of help from the VBA help file, this is the one you get
from the code window not from the main Access window, but I suspect from the
way your question is phrased that you may well need to look at obtaining a
beginners programming book of some kind.


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Terry Kreft


<audleman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1136414530.448211.26130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I'm very new to Access, although I have programmed extensively with
> VBScript. I'm looking for documentation for the scripting language used
> to write Macros. I'd even appreciate if someone could tell me what that
> scripting language is called.
>
> I recogzine the syntax from VBScript, but there are all these objects
> like ADODB.Recordset, Me, CurrentProject that I don't know much about
> and I don't have a good idea of the framework.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated!
>
> Kevin
>


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