5. Features:
Calculation
Graphing tools
Pivot tables
Macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications
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Microsoft Excel
6. Defenition:
A macro (short for "macroinstruction) in computer science is a rule or pattern that
specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be
mapped to a replacement output sequence (also often a sequence of characters)
according to a defined procedure.
A facility for writing macros may be provided as part of a software application or as a
part of a programming language.
In the former case, macros are used to :
make tasks using the application less repetitive.
they are a tool that allows a programmer to enable code reuse
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Macro
7. 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.
SEQUENTIAL TASKS
DATA MANUPUPULATION
What do you use macros for?
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8. Visual Basic for Applications enables:
• building user-defined functions (UDFs)
• automating processes and accessing Windows API
• and other low-level functionality through dynamic-link libraries (DLLs)
• VBA can automatically create a Microsoft Word report from Microsoft
Excel data that Excel collects automatically from polled sensors
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