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In this part . . .

art VII is all about automating routine operations
Pto make your use of the program more efficient.
Here, you are introduced to the process of recording
sequences of habitual actions in Excel as macros that
the program then plays back time and time again in your
spreadsheets, much more quickly than you can ever hope
to do by hand, and without the slightest deviation. You’re
also introduced to editing macros with Excel’s Visual Basic
Editor and using the Visual Basic for Applications program-
ming language to extend their functionality.