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Excel programming terminology can be a bit confusing. For example, VBA is a programming language, but it also serves as a macro language. In this context, a macro is a set of instructions Excel performs to imitate keystrokes and mouse actions. What do you call something written in VBA and executed in Excel? Is it a macro, or is it a program? Excel’s Help system often refers to VBA procedures as macros, so that terminology is used in this book. But you can also call this stuff a program.

You’ll see the term automate throughout this book. This term means that a series of steps are completed automatically. For example, if you write a macro that adds color to some cells, prints the worksheet, and then removes the color, you have automated those three steps.

By the way, macro doesn’t stand for Messy And Confusing Repeated Operation. Rather, it comes from the Greek makros, which means large — which also describes your paycheck after you become an expert macro programmer.