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One of the more powerful, but seldom used functions of Excel is the ability to very easily create automated tasks and custom logic within macros. Macros provide an ideal way to save time on predictable, repetitive tasks as well as standardize document formats – many times without having to write a single line of code. If you are curious what macros are or how to actually create them, no problem – we will walk you through the entire process. Note: the same process should work in most versions of Microsoft Office. The screenshots might look slightly different. What is a Macro?

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A Microsoft Office Macro (as this functionality applies to several of the MS Office Applications) is simply Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code saved inside a document. For a comparable analogy, think of a document as HTML and a macro as Javascript. In much of the same way that Javascript can manipulate HTML on a webpage, a macro can manipulate a document.

Macros are incredibly powerful and can do pretty much anything your imagination can conjure. As a (very) short list of functions you can do with a macro: • Apply style and formatting. • Manipulate data and text.

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• Communicate with data sources (database, text files, etc.). • Create entirely new documents. • Any combination, in any order, of any of the above. Creating a Macro: An Explanation by Example We start with your garden variety CSV file.

Nothing special here, just a 10×20 set of numbers between 0 and 100 with both a row and column header. Our goal is to produce a well formatted, presentable data sheet which includes summary totals for each row. As we stated above, a macro is VBA code, but one of the nice things about Excel is you can create/record them with zero coding required – as we will do here. To create a macro, go to View > Macros > Record Macro. Assign the macro a name (no spaces) and click OK.

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