Microsoft Excel is the most sought-after solution for processing, analyzing, and presenting data. Using Excel spreadsheets, which forms a key componentof the Microsoft Office Suite, Windows subscribers have been working with this program for years to create budgets, individual calendars, and a whole host of other projects. Excel is also used in business: With the software, project plans, hours lists, or budget plans are realized just as easily as graphical representations of sales figures, profits, or losses. Anyone familiar with the program learns to appreciate the various functions but at the same time, most people quickly develop a reluctance to constantly repeat routine tasks or repetitive actions that can’t easily be performed using the standard user interface.
So it comes as no surprise that the possibility to create macros in Excel is one of the core features of the spreadsheet program. There’s an integrated macro-recording tool for this purpose that uses the Visual Basic for Application (VBA) script language, which is also used in the Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook programs. Thanks to the language, you can easily create your own Excel macros that automatically execute defined routine commands, or add new functions to the spreadsheet calculation (i.e., algorithms for data analysis).