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    The Visual Basic Editor helps avoid errors in VBA coding for Excel by identifying spelling errors, syntax errors, and missing elements like quotation marks or parentheses in code through font coloring and error messages, and exercises demonstrate how the VBE alerts users to these types of errors so they can be corrected before running macros.

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    The Visual Basic Editor helps avoid errors in VBA coding for Excel by identifying spelling errors, syntax errors, and missing elements like quotation marks or parentheses in code through font coloring and error messages, and exercises demonstrate how the VBE alerts users to these types of errors so they can be corrected before running macros.

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    VBA Lesson 12: VBA for Excel to Manage Errors The Visual Basic Editor will help you

    avoid errors in coding in many different ways. You will not have to wait at the end to be told that there is something wrong with your macro.

    Spelling Errors You have seen in lesson 11 the VBE capitalise letters to let you know that there are no spelling errors.

    Syntax Errors The VBE will also tell you that there is a syntax error in what you have just written by making the font red and showing you a message box. Exercise 1 Step 1: Open a new workbook in Excel and use the ALT/F11 keys to go to the visual basic editor (VBE). Step 2: In the code window of any of the sheet copy/paste the following line of code: Range(A1").Select and click "Enter". You get the following message box telling you that you are missing a "list separator". Look for the error before the segment highlighted in blue. We can deduce that VBA is talking about the missing quotation mark.

    Step 3: Click on the "OK" button. Step 4: Add the missing quotation mark, use the mouse to move the cursor to the end of the sentence and click "Enter". The font is black meaning that everything is correct.

    Exercise 2 Step 1: In the code window that you have used for exercise 1 copy/paste the following line of code: Range("A1".Select and click "Enter". You get the following message box telling you that you are missing a "list separator". Look for the error before the segment highlighted in blue. We can deduce that VBE is talking about the missing parenthesis. Both the quotation marks in the exercise above and the parenthesis in this exercise are considered as "list separator" by the VBE.

    Step 2: Click on the "OK" button. Step 3: Add the missing parenthesis, use the mouse to move the cursor to the end of the sentence and click "Enter". The font is black meaning that everything is correct. Step 4: Close Excel without saving anything

    There are many other ways that the VBE uses to alert you to coding errors. You will learn about them all in the downloadable course on Excel macros. You will also learn how to use "If" statement to catch errors during the execution and how to use the OnError statement to generate user friendly error messages like the following:

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