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Caroline has attended:
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Macros

When do you need to use Macros?

RE: Macros

Hello Caroline
Thank you for your question

This depends on what you are trying to do. Some things can be done with formulas, but when these things are too complicated for the standard set of formulas then macros can be used. It may be that you will write your own set of macros to perform a task in excel. You can also use the record macro button which will record everything you do as a macro until you click the stop button. You can then attach that marco to an excel button and each time the button is pressed, the same macro will be performed. There are a certain number of standard macros such as save sheet etc which can be used.

This link might give you a bit more clarification:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100072101033.aspx

If this resolves your question, please mark it as resolved. If not, please reply with more information.

Kind regards
Cress

Wed 25 Feb 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.

 

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Excel tip:

Sum Up All the Values in A Column

If you want to quickly calculate the Summed values of all cells in a column in Excel 2003 normally you would use the SUM formula. (eg if you wanted to calculate the values in Column C rows 10 to 25) the formula would be:

=SUM(C10:C25)

However, if you keep adding values to column C you would keep having to modify the above SUM formula which can get quite annoying.

To get around this you can sum all the values in a column using the following formula:

=SUM(COLUMN:COLUMN)

Which, in our example, would be:

=SUM(C:C)

NOTE You cannot place this formula in column C, or else Excel 2003 will show a circular reference error.

The formula must be placed in any other column, EXCEPT the one being calculated.

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