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intermediate steps are provided to take the user

from the simple recording

mechanism

to the Visual Basic programming language. At the GUI level, us-

ers are limited in reuse to copy macros as black boxes into other documents

or to make macros generally available to all documents. At the program

level, code may be copied, pasted, and modified with the same difficulty as

any other object-oriented program. At this point, the user has jumped from

the comfortable environment of direct manipulation at the GUI level di-

rectly into the uncomfortable or downright frustrating ...