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The spreadsheet's way of letting past-you do future-you's boring work.
means A recorded sequence of commands or actions that runs automatically to perform a repetitive task.
from From Greek 'makros,' meaning 'long' or 'large' — the same root as 'macroeconomics' (the big picture) and 'macrobiotic' (literally 'long life'). In computing, a 'macro' is short for 'macro-instruction': one big command standing in for a long string of smaller ones. So the word that once meant 'large scale' came to mean 'small shortcut' — a tiny irony baked right into the name.
- origin
- Named for 'macro-instruction', a stand-in for many commands
- excel history
- Powered by VBA since 1993, barely changed since
- security irony
- Most common malware delivery trick in office documents
- nutrition slang
- Also shorthand for protein, carbs, and fat counts