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Afolabi - 25 May 2005 11:27 GMT

Pls tell me what macros are, and what benefit(s) do they serve?

I use office 2003

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Bob Phillips - 25 May 2005 12:10 GMT

Homework?

> Pls tell me what macros are, and what benefit(s) do they serve?
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> I use office 2003

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David McRitchie - 25 May 2005 18:36 GMT

Good question, Bob. <grin>

I imagine that a Google web search would turn up some answers:
inurl:excel "what is a macro"

You could start at the VBA Tutorials and read the first page
of each tutorial (Introductions) to get an idea of what macros are.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm#vbatutorials

You might also take a look at Chip Pearson's page as well
Macros and Functions (, for the difference between)
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/differen.htm
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> > Pls tell me what macros are, and what benefit(s) do they serve?
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CLR - 26 May 2005 01:53 GMT

A macro is an abbreviation for a set of commands, so instead of typing a
complicated sequence of commands you can simply type the macro's name. You
can either think of macros as a new commands in their own right or as
subroutines.

Virtually anything that can be done by hand in Excel, can be written into a
"Macro" so one can only invoke the macro when they want that particular list
of commands instead of having to type each one each time.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

> Pls tell me what macros are, and what benefit(s) do they serve?
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> I use office 2003

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Afolabi - 26 May 2005 09:14 GMT

Thank you very much Vaya, I appreciate your kind reply.

Afolabi Lawal
Lagos.

> A macro is an abbreviation for a set of commands, so instead of typing a
> complicated sequence of commands you can simply type the macro's name. You
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