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Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What's the purpose of this guide? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Who should use this guide? . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 How to use this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 About CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 About VBA in CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

About Corel Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Writing and running macros in CorelDRAW .
TheVBA toolbar in CorelDRAW

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Installing VBA for CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Writing a macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Writing macros in the VB Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Recording macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Running a macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Introducing automation and VBA
VBA for non-programmers

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What is automation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 6

VBA for programmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The main features of VBA structure and syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Comparing VBA to other programming languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Visual Basic Editor .

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Starting theVisual Basic Editor from CorelDRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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Visual Basic Editor user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Project Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Properties Window . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Code window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Form Designer window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Object Browser window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Debugging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

About objects and object models

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