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Hebe Zuelke

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Aug 3, 2024, 12:58:10 PM8/3/24

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When you record a macro, the macro recorder records all the steps in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code. These steps can include typing text or numbers, clicking cells or commands on the ribbon or on menus, formatting cells, rows, or columns, or even importing data from an external source, say, Microsoft Access. Visual Basic Application (VBA) is a subset of the powerful Visual Basic programming language, and is included with most Office applications. Although VBA gives you the ability to automate processes within and between Office applications, it is not necessary to know VBA code or computer programming if the Macro Recorder does what you want.

It is important to know that you when you record a macro, the Macro Recorder captures almost every move you make. So if you make a mistake in your sequence, for example, clicking a button that you did not intend to click, the Macro Recorder will record it. The resolution is to re-record the entire sequence, or modify the VBA code itself. This is why whenever you record something, it's best to record a process with which you're highly familiar. The more smoothly you record a sequence, the more efficiently the macro will run when you play it back.

When you record a macro for performing a set of tasks in a range in Excel, the macro will only run on the cells within the range. So if you added an extra row to the range, the macro will not run the process on the new row, but only the cells within the range.

It is not necessary that only tasks in Excel can be recorded in a macro. Your macro process can extend to other Office applications, and any other applications that support Visual Basic Application (VBA). For example, you can record a macro where you first update a table in Excel and then open Outlook to email the table to an email address.

To assign a keyboard shortcut to run the macro, in the Shortcut key box, type any letter (both uppercase or lowercase will work) that you want to use. It is best to use Ctrl + Shift (uppercase) key combinations, because the macro shortcut key will override any equivalent default Excel shortcut key while the workbook that contains the macro is open. For instance, if you use Ctrl+Z (Undo), you will lose the ability to Undo in that Excel instance.

Although the description field is optional, it is recommended you enter one. Also, try to enter a meaningful description with any information that may be useful to you or other users who will be running the macro. If you create a lot of macros, the description can help you quickly identify which macro does what, otherwise you might have to guess.

You can work with recorded code in the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) and add your own variables, control structures, and other code that the Macro Recorder cannot record. Since the macro recorder captures almost every step you take while recording, you can also clean up any unnecessary recorded code that serves no purpose in the macro. Reviewing your recorded code is a great way to learn or sharpen your VBA programming skills.

To assign a keyboard shortcut to run the macro, in the Shortcut key box, type any letter (both uppercase or lowercase will work) that you want to use. It is best to use key combinations that don't correspond to existing shortcut keys, as a macro shortcut key will override any equivalent default Excel shortcut key while the workbook that contains the macro is open.

Although the description field is optional, it is recommended you enter one. It's helpful to enter a meaningful description with any information that may be useful to you or other users who will be running the macro. If you create a lot of macros, the description can help you quickly identify which macro does what, otherwise you might have to guess.

When recording a macro in Excel (2007) the recorder will often wrap the lines of code if they get to long by using a "_" character. This is all well and good except that there is apparently a hard limit of how many times a line can be wrapped in the VBA IDE, and if the recorder exceeds that limit it stops recording.

I am trying to use macro recorder in Excel to record a macro to fill down a column of cells, however because the fill down each time is a different number of cells it either fills down to short or too long and this seems to be because the macro identifies the cell range and its fixed.

Is there anyway that I can get it to fill down to the last populated neighbouring cell. E.g. AutoFill down column E until it reaches the last populated row in column D. I have looked at some examples on here but the code all looks very different so not sure if it can be done with macro recorder or I have to get someone to write some code or is it something that has to be done manually?

I strongly vote for automatic thresholds whenever possible and reasonable. In advance some image normalisation, background subtraction, etc. might help as well. Wanna share an example image with us? (-:

This can be discussed, but it really is not the point
If there exist a manual threshold command I strongly feel it should be recorded as such (and not secretly overriding the users choice, because of a feeling that one knows better)!

Recording every single slider change would very quickly spam your recorder panel, no? I suggest educating users (maybe simply by recording a comment telling so) to use the Set button when they want the actual value recorded as a fixed value.

I stumbled across this myself recently in the following context:
I often tell users to turn on the macro-recorder not specifically to record a macro for automation but to create a step-by-step protocol of what they are doing. In that context, the need to perform an additional step (even just pressing Set) to make sure the action actually shows up in the protocol can lead to the user being unable to re-trace their steps.

Why limit yourself with keyboard and mouse recording? Insert custom commands and statements into your macros: "launch website", "open file", "wait for window", "goto", "shutdown" and many more. Add logic to your macros using the "IF - THEN" statement, "REPEAT X TIMES" statement.

Macro Recorder features an easy and straightforward user interface. Forget about hours wasted on reading manuals. Start using Macro Recorder in seconds. Just click "Record" with your mouse and start working. Watch a video!

Convert your macro to an EXE-file that runs on any windows-compatible computer (feel free to redistribute). To save space and improve performance the resulting EXE file is packed and compressed using the advanced optimization techniques.

Macro Recorder can find images on a screen, detect when a window changes it's position etc. Macro Recorder comes with full windows-shell integration and scheduling. Macros can be edited with the built-in full-featured editor.

All recorded keystrokes and mouse activity can be saved to disk as a macro (script) for later use, bound to a hotkey, extended with custom commands or even compiled to an EXE file (a standalone Windows application). This macro recording program will save you a lot of time on repetitive tasks. You can use the Macro Recorder to automate ANY activity in ANY windows application, record on-screen tutorials.

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What about your Lisp knowledge?
If a Lisp recorder is sufficient, then you should know the following functions:
setq
ssget
and all the rest are simple autocad-commands and variables

Recording a macro is an easy way to get started on a more complex macro. After you save a recorded macro, you can edit it in the Visual Basic editor to add functionality and make it easier to maintain.

If you are working with an unstructured display format (such as Open Systems terminals), you'll probably find it useful to record a macro and then look at the recorded code to get information such as the strings returned by a host or the screen positions of selected data.

The macro uses the ThisFrame property to get the control for the session that is selected (displayed in the workspace) during the recording. ThisFrame is a property that is available in any Reflection macro. It returns the top-level user interface component for the workspace and can be used to access the controls (sessions) running in the workspace.

A macro recorder is software that records macros for playback at a later time. The main advantage of using a macro recorder is that it allows a user to easily perform complex operations much faster and with less effort without requiring custom computer programming or scripting.

Not all software comes with a built-in macro recorder. A standalone macro-recorder program allows a user to "record" mouse and keyboard functions for "playback" at a later time. This allows automating any activity in any software application: from copy-pasting spreadsheet data to operating system maintenance actions.

Most macro recorders do not attempt to analyze or interpret what the user did when the macro was recorded. This can cause problems when trying to play back a macro if the user's desktop environment has changed. For example, if the user has changed their desktop resolution, moved icons, or moved the task bar, the mouse macro may not perform the way the user intended. That's one of the reasons for preferring keyboard macros over the mouse-oriented ones.