2Writing Your Own Macros
IN THIS CHAPTER
Activating the Ribbon’s Developer Tab
Displaying the Visual Basic Editor
Touring the Visual Basic Editor
Creating a User-Defined Function
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.
Why go to all that trouble? Here are just a few of the advantages you gain by doing this:
• If you make a mistake while recording ...
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