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VBA, which stands for Visual Basic for Applications, is a programming language developed by Microsoft — you know, the company that tries to get you to buy a new version of Windows every few years. Excel, along with the other members of Microsoft Office, includes the VBA language (at no extra charge). In a nutshell, VBA is the tool that people use to write programs that automate Excel, such as a program to format a spreadsheet into a monthly report. In the next section, I discuss in more detail the types of tasks you can automate with VBA.

Imagine a robot that knows all about Excel. This robot can read instructions, and it can also operate Excel quickly and accurately. When you want the robot to do something in Excel, you write a set of robot instructions by using special codes. Then you tell the robot to follow your instructions while you sit back and drink a glass of lemonade. With VBA, you don’t need the extra chair at your desk for an actual robot. Just feed the special codes into VBA and it does the work.