Difference between Visual Basic and VBA

Posted by Thomas Geritzma on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Thomas Geritzma
Published on 2009-06-14T17:43:27Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 1:03 UTC
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What is the difference between the two. I always thought VBA is somewhat 'crippled' version of VB, but when a friend asked me the other day I had no idea what the actual differences are.

Also, when you use, for example, Excel, is that VB or VBA ?

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