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Typically, people are referring to the same thing, but there is still the old XLM macro language which is different from VBA.
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Typically, people are referring to the same thing, but there is still the old XLM macro language which is different from VBA.

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Great explanation. &nbsp;Thanks!
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I hear people talking about Excel macros and Excel VBA. &nbsp;Are the terms interchangeable? &nbsp; Excel Macros are written in Excel VBA. &nbsp; So are all procedures macros?
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I hear people talking about Excel macros and Excel VBA.  Are the terms interchangeable?   Excel Macros are written in Excel VBA.   So are all procedures macros?

Excel VBA  or Excel Macros?  - Is there a difference?

Microsoft Excel topics include formulas, formatting, VBA macros and user-defined functions, and everything else related to the spreadsheet user interface, including error messages.

Microsoft Excel

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) enables building user-defined functions (UDFs), automating processes and accessing Windows API and other low-level functionality through dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). VBA is closely related to Visual Basic and uses the Visual Basic Runtime Library, but it can normally only run code within a host application rather than as a standalone program. It can, however, be used to control one application from another via OLE Automation. VBA is built into most Microsoft Office applications.