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Macros are the timesaving magic trick for Office applications because they automate repetitive tasks that gobble time. This week’s feature, which spotlights Excel, is one of several articles featuring ...

Don't struggle to pass strings. Instead, apply these five simple rules when working with embedded strings in VBA. If you want to work with VBA, eventually, you’ll struggle with embedded strings. It ...

Generally, an autocall library is a directory containing individual files, each of which contains one macro definition. In Release 6.11 or later, an autocall library can also be a SAS catalog (see ...

Microsoft Excel offers Visual Basic for Application (VBA) as a scripting tool to let you add additional functionality to your Excel spreadsheets. You can use VBA to prompt the user to enter a filename ...

In general, a macro language function processes one or more arguments and produces a result. You can use all macro functions in both macro definitions and open code. Macro functions include character ...