Automate Repetitive Tasks

Topic at a glance

Do you ever find yourself going through the same steps over and over to perform routine tasks? Perhaps you make the same complex text modifications again and again, repeatedly format certain worksheet cells so that they stand out, or add the same graphic to many of your slides. Or perhaps you perform more complex repetitive tasks, such as filling out employee review forms or collecting and processing payroll information.

Office provides a simple way to perform these tasks automatically. Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications is a powerful built-in programming language that enables a novice user to automate simple tasks and that enables a developer to create customized, multiple application solutions to automate complex tasks.