Welcome to your first look at Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)! You might think that VBA is a secret code used by advanced computer users to intimidate the rest of us. Nothing could be further from the truth. VBA is all about doing things your way. When you want an application to perform a task in a certain way, use VBA to extend it. VBA makes you the boss. After you discover the wonders of VBA, you can customize a number of applications to make them work the way you want them to work.