![]() Typically, macros are used to automate repetitive tasks and daily routines. Skilled VBA developers can write really sophisticated macros that go well beyond reducing the number of keystrokes. Quite often, you may hear people referring to a "macro" as "VBA". Technically, there is a distinction: a macro is a piece of code while Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is the programming language created by Microsoft to write macros. The main purpose of macros is to have more work done in less time. Like you use formulas to crunch numbers and manipulate text strings, you can use macros to perform frequent tasks automatically. Let's say, you are to create a weekly report for your supervisor. For this, you import various analytics data from a couple or more external resources. The problem is that those data are messy, superfluous, or not in the format that Excel can understand. Now, imaging that all these operations can be performed for you instantly in a mouse click! That means you need to reformat dates and numbers, trim extra spaces and delete blanks, copy and paste information into appropriate columns, build charts to visualize trends, and do a lot more different things to make your report clear and user-friendly. Of course, building a complex macro takes time. Sometimes, it can take even more time than performing the same manipulations manually. But creating a macro is a one time set-up. Once written, debugged and tested, VBA code will do the job quickly and flawlessly, minimizing human errors and costly mistakes. There are two ways to create macros in Excel - by using the Macro Recorder and Visual Basic Editor. Within Excel, most operations with macros are done via the Developer tab, so be sure to add Developer tab to your Excel ribbon. Recording a macroĮven if you don't know anything about programing in general and VBA in particular, you can easily automate some of your work just by letting Excel record your actions as a macro. While you are performing the steps, Excel closely watches and writes down your mouse clicks and keystrokes in the VBA language. ![]()
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