Word Document Properties

Chapter 3: Writing Structured VBA Programs
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To open the project settings, right-click the project in the Project Explorer
window and then choose the Project Properties option from the context
menu that appears. You see the Project Properties dialog box, shown in
Figure 3-7. See the “Looking at the Integrated Development Environment
(IDE)” section of Chapter 1 for a description of the Project Explorer window.
(Note that I’ve already filled out the various options that I describe in the fol-
lowing sections.)
Describing your project
Describing your project makes it easier to track when you view it in the VBA
IDE windows. Start by giving your project a meaningful name. It shouldn’t be
long, but calling your project 
VBAProject
isn’t very meaningful because it
doesn’t describe what the project does. The Project Name field, shown in
Figure 3-7, has a meaningful project name for this chapter because the exam-
ples show how to add structure to your programs.
Although the Project Name field value shows up in a number of places, the
Project Description field value shows up only in Object Browser. You can
write a longer text description of the project so that it’s easier to track each
entry that Object Browser shows. Otherwise, you might have a hard time
finding the project that you want.
Some people don’t see help files as a necessary project description, but
a
help file
is a detailed description of what your project can do. The Help
File Name field tells where to locate the help file and which one to use.
The Project Help Context ID field contains the number of the help topic that
relates to the project. This entry normally contains the topic number of an
overview page.
Figure 3-7:
Define basic
information
for your
projects.
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