MS Access VBA Basics Video 1

You can download the code and the database from this link: http://vbahowto.com/ms-access-vba-basics-video-1/ In this video to will learn How to use the VBE, Visual Basic Editor, to add code to applications. How to declare and use variables (The Dim statement). How to create and call "Sub" procedures. ----------------------------------------------------------- how to show values based on input, video 2 will show how to operate on values input. ----------------------------------------------------------- VBA is Visual Basic For Applications, Basically, all Microsoft programs, like Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook etc. have their own form of VBA. You can open the VBE, Visual Basic Editor, by pressing the Alt and F11 keyboard combination. Now you can start adding code to Access objects. Also you can add code to a form, by opening the properties of a form object, clicking the events tab and choosing "Event Procedure". Dimensioning a variable is allocating a certain memory space which the computer will use to store the contents of the variable. Dim strMessage as String strMessage="How are you?" Msgbox strMessage Apply it to an access context set the value of a text box control equal to a value when the form loads. I use code to interact with the forms. Why? Because, I have more control over what the user does. I hope that helps, be sure to like the video and subscribe to this channel to get more tutorial videos.