Understanding Objects and Collections

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This section provides an overview of the fundamental concepts behind how Office applications expose their functionality to the VBA language through a hierarchical system of objects and collections of objects called an object model. Once you understand how to reference objects in an application's object model, you can use the objects and features available to build your solution.