Microsoft Office
Messages and variables exercise
Harder than average exercise

This Microsoft Office MESSAGES AND VARIABLES exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl EXCEL VISUAL BASIC course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Searching for sex in teletubbies

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1)	Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-123.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2)	Write a macro which asks you for a word:
	This uses the InputBox function
3)	The macro then displays the row and column where this word is found:
	You may disagree about Laa Laa ...
Every cell has got various properties.  We have already seen the Value property (what it contains) - two other useful properties are its Row and Column properties, giving the row and column numbers respectively.
4)	Save this workbook and close it down.

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