
It’s actually quite fun to record a simple macro and then look at the VBA code. Recorded macros generate VBA code, which you can then examine. Macros: If you’ve spent any time learning more advanced Excel functionality, you’ve probably encountered the concept of a “macro.” Excel users can record macros, consisting of user commands/keystrokes/clicks, and play them back at lightning speed to accomplish repetitive tasks. Note: you can have functions operating inside of subroutines.

Sometimes, this is also referred to as a macro (more on macros below). Procedures: a procedure is a chunk of VBA code, written in the Visual Basic Editor, that accomplishes a task. If you don’t have any experience with object-oriented programming and this is a brand new concept, take a second to let that sink in! VBA allows users to manipulate and perform actions with objects in Excel. Objects: Excel is object-oriented, which means everything is an object - the Excel window, the workbook, a sheet, a chart, a cell. Here are some important concepts that you should be familiar with to fully understand this tutorial.

That’s a little more than the population of Europe and 25x more users than there were in 1996.
