Dear Friends,

Providing proper short descriptions for each of your functions or statements etc. makes your VBA code – easy to read, easy to understand by anyone who refers your code.

Now the question is, how can you write description in English language in between your VBA code? VBA compiler will start giving compile error. It is very simple by commenting those lines which you do not want get executed.

How to comment a line in VBA code

In VBA to comment a particular line which you do not want to get compiled or executed, you can type your line followed by single quote ( ‘ ). The complete line which is starting with single quote is ignored and does not get executed. All the commented lines get formatted in green color as shown below image.

Commented line

It means to comment a block of code or lines you need to put single quote for each lines. It becomes difficult if you have got a function of hundreds of lines of code which you want to comment. then how to comment them all in simple way??

How to comment a block of codes or lines in VBA

In order to comment a block of lines at once, follow the below steps:

1. Select the Block which you want to comment
2. Click on comment Block option available as shown in below picture:

Commenting Block of codes in VBA

How to uncomment a block of codes or lines in VBA which are already commented

In order to un-comment a block of lines at once, follow the below steps:

1. Select the Block which you want to uncomment
2. Click on the un-comment Block option available as shown in below picture:

Uncomment block of comment

Where to find this comment Block Option in VBA window

Follow the below steps to enable or see this comment block option in VBA window:

1. To make this option visible follow : View –> Toolbars –> Click on Edit

Comment Block Option