With VBA, it is generally a solution for one’s self or a small group of individuals. Most of my apps if an exception happens, a yellow line is highlighted in the VBA editor, you investigate the variables LIVE (on thy fly – love that about VBA) and adjust or fix the situation. If the code is for others, then some error handling is added and the world is stable until the next time.

Recently, I was asked to make the error handling cascade like c# – so now it is time to fully understand the error handling of VBA.

Here is SUPER resource – it is for MS Access, but will apply equally for all MS Office and other VBA apps. There are few new tricks I will try on some hornery AutoCAD tools. In Excel the “Do Events” usuallly fixes many of the super odd errors (VBA is going faster than Excel and.. Do Events helps to sync the two into stability.