Excel macros use Visual Basic code to perform functions unavailable through the program's graphical controls. For example, macros can extract data from a sheet, perform string operations on them ...

Excel offers myriad options for referring to workbooks and sheets in your VBA code. See which methods make sense in which situations.

These macros are separate from Excel formulas, which are used to automatically compute results in a spreadsheet cell based on values in other cells.

Excel can send alerts based on spreadsheet data, but you'll need to write a macro to do it. We'll show you how.