Visual Basic and VBA.?

Question

I am such a noObie at this so my question maybe too general but here goes: I want to do automation outside of microsoft office and truly don't understand what I can cannot do with VBA. Can I even use VBA for other automation tasks and where can I find information on starting. Any insight or links would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

It would be helpful if we knew what kind of automation tasks you want to perform.

Personally, I've found very little that I can't do with VBA, and what little I can't do, I can usually do with batch files that I can then get VBA to write.

Haven't found a way to automatically print PDF files to the default printer in a distributed application... FTPing is kind of hard... you can't make the current application overwrite itself with a different copy... I haven't been able to figure out how to send emails without going through Outlook...

That's about it. That's about all I can think of that I've ever tried to automate and was not able to do using VBA (usually in MS Access).

Answer 2

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