Excel

Hi Zoe,

Welcome to the forum and thank you for your first post; in answer to your question; Macros are covered in our Advanced course, but a little explanation would not be amiss.

A macro is a recording of mouse clicks and/or of keyboard entries which are recorded by Excel and played back (like a tape recording) whenever required, a macro is usually recorded to undertake mundane or repetitive tasks. Unless you are employing VBA you are not really writing macros, you are recording them, although Excel translates the recording into VBA script, which is editable using VBA.

To record a macro, go to the Menu command Tools>Macro and choose the option Record New Macro, name your Macro in the dialog box and observe Store macro in: drop down box, this gives you three choices, if you wish your macro to be available to you in every workbook you open, choose the Personal Macro Workbook option, the other two are self explanatory.
Observe the little floating toolbar which opens, the option to have your new macro work either Absolute (always in the same cells) or Relative, (within the same pattern from a chosen cell, but anywhere in the worksheet.)

Undertake the task you wish to record, when you have completed the task, click the Stop Recording button (the little square, usually blue) Excel will remember all your mouse clicks and key presses, and replay them when you go to the menu command Tools>Macro and choose Macros, select your named Macro and press the button Run.

This action can be automated by creating a button either on screen or on your toolbars and assigning the chosen macro to it, or by creating a Keyboard shortcut and assigning the macro to it.

I hope that has been of help, if so please click the resolved link, regards Pete