[AccessD] VBA question

OK, certainly, you can "develop" with macros -- there's no argument there.
That doesn't mean a procedure is a macro.

Does anyone know if MS still uses the term macro to define procedures in
Word and Excel?

Susan H.


> Hello Bryan,
>
> BC> The problem lays in the connotation that Macro brings. It implies
> BC> that it is something less than programming. But we all know it's not.
>
> Exactly, and that is where the distinction, if any, should be made.
>
> A macro is something that can be recorded and played back by anyone,
> including those with no programming knowledge or even much experience
> with the application and without even realizing that the macro
> recording process is generating programming code. Under those
> conditions, and _only_ those conditions, does a "macro" qualify for
> it's connotation. A lot of simple stuff can be done with macros, and
> as such they are an ignored or at best under-used resource for many.
>
> On the other hand, there are many things that simply can not be done
> through recording a macro including the most basic of programming
> structures such as the loop or conditional branching. Those items and
> many others take at least some programming knowledge and skill, and
> the result is absolutely no longer a "macro".
>
> This is a sensitive subject for me, as several years ago while working
> as a clerk I undertook a programming assignment writing extensive and
> complex programs in Excel with the verbal agreement that I would be
> compensated after the fact at a higher salary. When the time came, I
> was denied the extra compensation because "all you did was do some
> macros, that isn't programming".
>
> OK, my stupidity for taking the word of anyone, even someone I liked
> and trusted, when money is involved. Lesson learned, and in the long
> run it was a cheap enough price to pay to learn it. Still, we all have
> certain injustices happen to us that stick with us for years. That is
> one of mine.
>
> Ron
>
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