[VBA] In Need of Layman's Terms

I have no experience with writing code of any kind.  I have been able to glean a few tips regarding how to make a VBA from reading a number of trouble shooting posts and the MicroStationVBA.chm, but can someone please answer the following questions in the most simple way they know how?  In other words, in layman's terms.

1.  What does the variable type Long do?

2.  What is an element enumerator?

3.  What does adding .Text to a variable type do?  For instance, textEl.text

4.  I know that a dimensioned variable name as a string can store text, but how do I insert that text back into my VBA?  Example:

Someone has helped me get this far with figuring out how to parse text from a selection set

Dim textEl As TextElement
Set textEl = ee.Current.AsTextElement
Dim myText As String
myText = textEl.Text

I assumed that I can now use the variable myText to insert the text that I have parsed out back into my VBA, but after trying this I found out I could not.  Can someone explain to me in layman's terms how to insert a string back into my VBA?

If the language I used is off, please do not take this opportunity to make fun of me as others have, I am very new at this.

P.S.  I know about the Learning MicroStation VBA book, I cannot afford it.