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+  <topic id="textsbasicsharedvbasupportxml">
+    <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Support for VBA Macros</title>
+    <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/vbasupport.xhp</filename>
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+<body>
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+<section id="support_for_vba_macros">
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+<paragraph id="hd_id051720170332046289" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/vbasupport.xhp">Working with VBA Macros</link></paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id05172017033242490" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's Visual Basic which is built into all Microsoft Office applications. </ahelp></paragraph>
+</section>
+<paragraph id="par_id051720170332428854" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Support for VBA is not complete, but it covers a large portion of the common usage patterns. Most macros use a manageable subset of objects in the Excel API (such as the Range, Worksheet, Workbook, etc.) and the support include those objects, and the most commonly used method/properties of those objects.</paragraph>
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+<paragraph id="hd_id051720170350145604" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Loading Microsoft Office documents with executable VBA macros</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id051720170350147298" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Go to <item type="menuitem">Tools – Options – Load / Save – VBA Properties</item> and mark the <emph>Excutable code</emph> checkbox. Then load or open your document.</paragraph>
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+<paragraph id="hd_id051720170400536628" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Runing VBA Macros</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id051720170400539565" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Run VBA macros in the same way as %PRODUCTNAME Basic macros.</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id051720170407404013" role="warning" xml-lang="en-US">Since support for VBA is not complete, you may have to edit the VBA code and complete the missing support with %PRODUCTNAME Basic objects, statements and functions.</paragraph>
+
+<paragraph id="hd_id051720170400533411" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Editing VBA Macros</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id051720170400532486" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">VBA macros can be edited in the %PRODUCTNAME Basic IDE.</paragraph>
+
+<section id="relatedtopics">
+<paragraph id="par_id051720171119254111" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/shared/optionen/01130100.xhp">VBA Properties</link></paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id051720170407401872" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/01030000.xhp">%PRODUCTNAME Basic IDE</link></paragraph>
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