I noticed that Office 2010 comes with Visual Basic for Applications 7.0. However I can't seem to find much documentation on what changes were made. Does anyone have a summary of the changes, or any resources describing the differences?
There's not a whole lot that has changed between VBA6 and VBA7. VBA7 was introduced to support 64-bit versions of both Office and Windows (see below on what those differences are). Here are the key changes:
64-bit support, primarily for API calls. This is both used to make your code work with your OS/Office version as well as others' (i.e. someone on Office 2003/WinXP)
If you are on a 64-bit version of Windows, but are on a 32-bit version of Office, you can declare API calls like below. .
#If Win64 Then
Declare PtrSafe Function GetTickCount64 Lib "kernel32"() As LongLong
#Else
Declare PtrSafe Function GetTickCount Lib "kernel32" () As Long
#End IfIf you are on a 64-bit version of Windows, and are on a 64-bit version of Office, you can declare API calls like: .
#If VBA7 Then
Declare PtrSafe Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" ( _
ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal lpWindowName As String) As LongPtr
#Else
Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal _
lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
#End IfTo support this, there are:
Three new keywords (2 data types and
1 modifier): LongPtr, LongLong and PtrSafe
One new function: CLngLng() (i.e.
Int64)
The new compilation constants as used
above: VBA7 and Win64