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Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007
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Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007

by Ed Bott, Woody Leonhard
September 2007
Beginner
792 pages
23h 32m
English
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Chapter 26. Using Macros to Automate Routine Tasks

In this chapter

Getting Started with Macros

What Can You Do with a Macro?

Using the Visual Basic Editor

How Office Applications Store Macros

Recording Simple Macros

Troubleshooting Recorded Macros

Running Macros

Digitally Signing Macros You Create

Troubleshooting

Extra Credit: Getting Ready to Tackle VBA

Getting Started with Macros

Office macros are small computer programs that perform tasks on your behalf. And when we say small, we mean very small. A skilled programmer can create a macro that does something meaningful with just a few lines of program code, written in the underlying programming language of Office, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

Anyone can create powerful macros using tools ...

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