No one person on the Excel team is focused on the macro recorder.

The macro recorder doesn't work!

Four tips for using the macro recorder

Never use AutoSum or Quick Analysis while recording a macro.

Assigning a macro to a form control, text box, or shape

Creating a macro button on the Quick Access Toolbar

Creating a macro button on the ribbon

Running a macro

Filling out the Record Macro dialog box

Overview of recording, storing, and running a macro

As corporate IT departments have found themselves with long backlogs of requests, Excel users have discovered that they can produce the reports needed to run their businesses themselves using the macro language Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

VBA enables you to achieve tremendous efficiencies in your day-to-day use of Excel. VBA helps you figure out how to import data and produce reports in Excel so that you don't have to wait for the IT department to help you.

Although regular macros work on programs in the form of trees, a special type of macro, called a read macro, operates on the raw characters that make up your program.

Not only does lisp provide direct access to code that has been parsed into a cons cell structure, but it also provides access to the characters that make up your programs before they even reach that stage.

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