Spreadsheet Models for Managers
Getting Access to Spreadsheet Models for Managers
If 
you use Excel to model businesses, business processes, or
business transactions, this course will change your life. You’ll learn how to create tools for yourself that will amaze
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Spreadsheet Models for Managers
| A little bit of notation | 13/9 Session Links |
The text of your macros has to be processed before it can be executed. It’s parsed, and then it’s compiled into executable instructions. The software that performs those operations assumes that each line of the macro is syntactically complete. If not, it flags an error.
If some lines of your macro are very long, you might want to write them on two lines, but this causes a problem for the macro processor, which assumes that each line is complete. So if you want to break an expression across lines, you must use the line continuation character to indicate that the lines belong together.
It’s also useful to include comments in the text of your macros. They help you and others understand what you’re doing. Everything you type after a single-quote on any given line is considered a comment — except, of course, if the single-quote is part of a quoted string. Quoted strings in VBA, as in Excel, are wrapped in double-quotes.
It’s also possible to quickly comment or uncomment multiple lines at once. See the reading on Excel macros.
Last Modified: Wednesday, 27-Apr-2016 04:15:26 EDT
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?