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A Little Bit of Computer Science

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SlideShowWindow

The window in which the powerpoint presentation is being

presented

Sub

A subroutine that holds the code that a macro executes

Subtract Operation

Subtract two operands

Tags

Used to identify a section of the web page

TextBox

A box that contains text. The text in the box can be set through a

variable in a program

A graphical object that is rectangular

TextFrame2

Attribute that allows you to read the text in a graphical shape

Variable

A temporary storage location for a data value.

Represented by a string of alphanumeric characters

Cannot have a space in between

Used for moving values from one place to another

Visible

A function that makes an object visible

Weight

The thickness of a line

Wend

The end of a While statement

While

An iteration technique that checks a value rather than a counter

Example:

While I < 100

<statement>

<statement>

:

<statement>

Wend

The difference from the FOR statement is that there are no

automatic counters. In the example above, one has to increment

the variable I in one of the statements in the loop.

Workbook

A collection of worksheets

Workbooks.Open

Open a workbook to read or write its content

Worksheet

The sheet or sheets that make up the workbook

Write

A statement to write a line on the file. Each write statement writes

one record.

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