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Chapter 42 Working with Visual Basic for Applications
Macros
In Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, and FrontPage, a macro is just a subrou-
tine. When you open an Office application and run a macro with a given name, it runs the
subroutine that goes by that same name.
➔ For details on locating the macros, see “How Office Applications Store Macros,” p. 1117.
In Access, the term macro has a completely different meaning. Access’s old-fashioned
“macros” are simple commands set up in a very rigid sequence and created using a fill-in-
the-blanks dialog box, with very little support for the kinds of actions you would expect in a
programming language; ...