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Chapter 41 Using Macros to Automate Office Tasks
What’s New in Office 2003
The basic tools and techniques for automating Microsoft Office haven’t changed in years. If
you learned how to create, record, edit, and manage Office macros—small computer pro-
grams that perform tasks on your behalf—in a previous Office version, your skills are still
relevant. The underlying programming language of Office, Visual Basic for Applications
(VBA), is also (ahem) basically unchanged from its previous incarnations. Even VBA gurus
would be hard-pressed to notice any significant changes in the past five years.
If you’ve already mastered macros, you can safely skim ...