Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Part III: More-Advanced Access Techniques

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FIGURE 22.2

IntelliSense provides insight into referenced object libraries.

Class

Object Library

Auto List Members

FIGURE 22.3

The VBA IntelliSense feature makes it easy to use Automation servers.

Auto List Members for an object

Late-binding an object

If you don’t explicitly reference an object library by using the References dialog box, you can set an

object’s reference in code by first declaring a variable as an object and then using the Set com-

mand to bind the object variable to an Automation reference. This process is known as late binding.

For example, the following statements late-bind an object variable to the Microsoft Word

Application object: