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What is macros in excel and what is the use of it?

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Question added by Abu Bakar Ashfaq , Senior Consultant , PricewaterhouseCoopers Middle East
Date Posted: 2016/02/11
Sharan Kumar
by Sharan Kumar , Senior Analyst , Tech Mahindra Pvt.Ltd

      A macro can be defined as the recording of a series of tasks. It’s the simplest form of automation. Marcos in Excel are written in Excel VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). Macros can save you hours by automating simple, repetitive tasks.

      Creating simple macros – copy a formula from one cell to another, for instance – is fairly easy. Complicated macros require a bit more work. You’ll need to be quite intimate with Excel VBA to automate the more complex tasks in your workflow

 

 

Abdul Kareem Chala Mohammed
by Abdul Kareem Chala Mohammed , Senior Designer , iSmarthome

If you have tasks in Microsoft Excel that you do repeatedly, you can record a macro to automate those tasks. A macro is an action or a set of actions that you can run as many times as you want. When you create a macro, you are recording your mouse clicks and keystrokes. After you create a macro, you can edit it to make minor changes to the way it works.

Suppose that every month, you create a report for your accounting manager. You want to format the names of the customers with overdue accounts in red, and also apply bold formatting. You can create and then run a macro that quickly applies these formatting changes to the cells you select

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