Spreadsheet Models for Managers
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you use Excel to model businesses, business processes, or
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Spreadsheet Models for Managers
| Why write a function macro? | 13/5 Session Links |
Function macros provide all the advantages of command macros relative to training and knowledge capture. When you make a complex computation available using a function macro, you reduce the need for the users of the macro to understand its inner workings. By comparison, to perform equivalent computations using elemental spreadsheet formulas, the spreadsheet author needs to understand the computation in greater detail. And when you modify the way that computation is done, you might have to retrain the people who regularly perform those computations.
Using function macros, changes in approach often require no change in spreadsheet structure. True, you might have to alter the function macro itself, but that’s a single-point modification — it’s done in one place by one person, one time (and then the updated macro is released and distributed, possibly automatically). When you have a number of users following a worksheet-level technique but not using a function macro, and you make a change, each user must learn the new way. The cost advantage of the macro approach is clear.
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We focus on function macros in this course because they’re more likely than command macros to make a real difference in your facility with constructing models. For instance, when your customer wants to see result streams displayed as [Month1, Month2, Month3, Q1 Total, Month4, Month5, Month6, Q2 Total, …], you probably realize that such a layout makes copy/paste and fill very inconvenient. A macro can provide a simple means of producing the preferred layout from a more easily maintained pure month structure. It’s also easy to construct macros for running sums and running differences. Can you think of other applications for function macros that make your models easier to build and maintain?