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Microsoft Excel Step by Step (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)
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Microsoft Excel Step by Step (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

by Joan Lambert, Curtis Frye, Cindy M. Lewis
December 2021
Beginner
480 pages
9h 48m
English
Microsoft Press
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12. Automate tasks and input

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Many tasks you perform in Excel, such as entering data or creating formulas, you do only once. However, there are probably one or two tasks you perform frequently that require a lot of steps to accomplish. To save time, you can create a macro, which is a recorded series of actions, to perform the steps for you. You can create various shortcuts for running the macro, including buttons on the Quick Access Toolbar or on a worksheet.

If you create workbooks for other people to use, you can provide macros that perform specific tasks for the workbook users, and form fields that guide the data-entry ...

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