Rapid Application Development / Advanced Excel Development

VBA Best Practice

There is a lot of information floating around about how to get various things done in VBA, how to make the best use, or sometimes just the most use of VBA and Excel.
This section aims to add an element of Quality and Best Practices. These are just general guidelines, a professional developer will always assess the options and make the appropriate choice in their specific situation.
These suggestions are specific to Excel VBA in commercial settings, many will not translate to other technologies or other settings.

VBA Best Practice Series

Avoiding Common Errors

• Consider lifetime - initialise, set, use, destroy (CRUD - Create, read, update, delete)
• Off by one errors, especially ranges into variants, arrays, loops and ubound()
• Watch for index cross talk
• Dim x, y as integer => x is a variant
• StrComp, InStr - check the documentation