Microsoft Access 2010 : Converting a Macro to VBA Code

1.	Open the macro you want to convert in Design view.
2.	Select Convert Macros to Visual Basic in the Tools group on the Macro Tools Design tab of the Ribbon. The Convert Macro dialog appears (see Figure 1). Figure 1. The Convert Macro dialog box allows you to save a macro as a Visual Basic module.
3.	Determine where you want to add error handling and comments to the generated code, and then click Convert. Access informs you that the conversion finished and places you in the Visual Basic Editor - VBE (see Figure 2). Figure 2. The Visual Basic Editor allows you to view and modify the programming code that you generated.
4.	The converted macro appears under the list of modules with Converted Macro: followed by the name of the macro. Click Design to view the results of the conversion.

Figure 3 shows a macro that’s been converted into distinct subroutines, one for each macro name. The macro is complete with logic, comments, and error handling. All macro conditions are converted into If...Else...End If statements, and all the macro comments are converted into VBA comments. Basic error-handling routines are automatically added to the code.

Figure 3. A converted macro as a module.

When you convert a macro to a Visual Basic module, the original macro remains untouched. Furthermore, all the objects in your application will still call the macro. To effectively use the macro conversion options, you must find all the places where the macro was called and replace the macro references with calls to the VBA function.