Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Properties Window in the Visual Basic Editor of Excel

The Properties window shows you the properties of the component that is selected in the Project Window (single click). For example in the new workbook if you single click on "Sheet1" in the Project Window you see the properties of sheet1 in the Properties Window.

As you can see, a worksheet has 12 properties that you can change in this Properties window. Notice that there are 2 "Name" properties. On the first line there is the programmatical name of the sheet (Sheet1). You will discover later the advantages and disadvantages of changing this property. The second "Name" property (9th line) is the name (or caption) that appears on the tab of the sheet in Excel.

Changing the "Name" Property. You will also learn how to name your modules and work with a few other properties of the objects appearing in the Project Window.

Close the VBE and close Excel without saving anything.

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