Does the VBA "And" operator evaluate the second argument when the first is false?

What you are looking for is called "short-circuit evaluation".

VBA doesn't have it.

You can see an approach that is probably adaptable to your situation here.

The approach that was chosen there involved substituting a Select Case for the If. There is also an example of using nested Ifs.

As DOK mentioned: No, VBA does not have short-circuit evaluation.

It's technically more efficient to use 2 If-then statements instead of using the AND operator, but unless you are doing it a lot of times, you wouldn't notice the savings, so go for whatever is more readable. And if you want to get really technical, VBA handles multiple If-then statements faster than Select Case ones as well.

VBA is quirky :)