In This Chapter
• Understanding the advantages of writing your own macros
• Getting to know the Visual Basic Editor
• The basic steps required to write a macro
• Learning how to craft your very own user-defined functions
• Creating and using procedures
• Understanding and working with VBA modules
Letting VBA do all the work by recording your macros is an easy way to automate tasks, and it's a technique you'll use often. However, to get the most out of VBA, you need to do some full-fledged programming, which means writing your own macros, either from scratch or by using a recorded macro as a starting point. Here are just a few of the advantages you gain by doing this:
• If you make a mistake while recording a macro, ...
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