Recording macros

Well, the first concept to understand when learning VBA is Macros Development.
What is a macro?
Making it simple,a macro is a list of actions that the user can record to reproduce anytime later.
This concept is global to the whole Office platform, so we can for example develop Macros to write a document on Word, to do some calculations on Excel, or to estimate some times on Project.

How to start digging on Macros?
Well the first step is to enable the developer toolbar. To do that on Office 2007 you go to the Home button, right click on it, and next choose customize quick access toolbar. Then go to Popular tab and check "Show developer tab in the ribbon".
Next you will see a new tab named Developer where you can do the developer stuff.

How to record a macro?
To start recording let's make a first and simple example:
1.Click on Developer tab
2.Click on record macro
3.Name the macro as 'Sample' and click ok.
4.Select A1 cell and write =SUM( and then select B1, C1 and D1 cell and click enter.
5.It should show you 0 because you haven't filled yet the values of B1, C1 and D1.
6.Write 1 on B1, 2 on C1 and 3 on D1.
7.A1 cell should have the value 6 resulted by the sum of the previous cells.
8.Then click on stop recording on the same place you've started recording.
9.Reset your sheet by reseting the fills of each column you've filled before.
10.Select cell A1.
11.Click Macros. A list of all the macros of that worksheet should appear. Select 'Sample' and click run.

Result: All the steps that you've recorded on the macro are reproduced and the sheet is filled again.

In the next example, we will examine the code generated by this recording so don't delete this macro yet.

Here is a pretty cool video more powerfull than our simple example:
Macros