An Excel macro is an abbreviation for macroinstruction—a sequence of commands (or directives) that tell a computer program or a programming language (such as Visual Basic, C, Assembler, PHP, etc.) to ...

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In Microsoft Excel, macros are recorded in Visual Basic programming language and it can be run in several ways. You can run a macro by clicking the Macros command on the Developer tab, using a ...

Excel macros use Visual Basic code to perform functions unavailable through the program's graphical controls. For example, macros can extract data from a sheet, perform string operations on them and ...

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Microsoft Excel's implementation of Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA, helps you record or write macros that turn sequences of tasks and commands into pieces of one-click automation. Macros can ...

Microsoft Excel is full of little tricks and features that are designed to make it easier for you to set up and manage your spreadsheets. Though unlike formulas — which can be used to automatically ...

Microsoft has disabled Excel 4.0 macros by default in the latest release of its spreadsheet software to help customers protect themselves against related security threats. That setting, released as an ...