how do you view macro code in access?

Question

I have a Microsoft Access database and there is a macro there. How do I view the code of the macro?

Answer 1

This did the trick for me: I was able to find which macro called a particular query. Incidentally, the reason someone who does know how to code in VBA would want to write something like this is when they've inherited something macro-ish written by someone who doesn't know how to code in VBA.

Function utlFindQueryInMacro
       ( strMacroNameLike As String
       , strQueryName As String
       ) As String 
    ' (c) 2012 Doug Den Hoed 
    ' NOTE: requires reference to Microsoft Scripting Library
    Dim varItem As Variant
    Dim strMacroName As String
    Dim oFSO As New FileSystemObject
    Dim oFS   
    Dim strFileContents As String
    Dim strMacroNames As String
    For Each varItem In CurrentProject.AllMacros
    strMacroName = varItem.Name
    If Len(strMacroName) = 0 _
    Or InStr(strMacroName, strMacroNameLike) > 0 Then
        'Debug.Print "*** MACRO *** "; strMacroName
        Application.SaveAsText acMacro, strMacroName, "c:\temp.txt"
        Set oFS = oFSO.OpenTextFile("c:\temp.txt")
        strFileContents = ""
        Do Until oFS.AtEndOfStream
            strFileContents = strFileContents & oFS.ReadLine
        Loop
        Set oFS = Nothing
        Set oFSO = Nothing
        Kill "c:\temp.txt"
        'Debug.Print strFileContents
        If InStr(strFileContents, strQueryName)     0 Then
            strMacroNames = strMacroNames & strMacroName & ", "
        End If
    End If
    Next varItem
    MsgBox strMacroNames
    utlFindQueryInMacro = strMacroNames
 End Function