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Zoho Sheet Offers Easy Visual Basic Macros
Office suite provider Zoho is announcing the launch of recordable macros in their Zoho Sheet application today. Basically creating a macro is as easy as clicking the start button, completing the actions you desire, and then clicking the stop button. Zoho then creates the Visual Basic code which you can pick up and modify as you like. The macro can then be applied to other spreadsheets.
Here’s a video overview showing how to create a macro in Zoho Sheet:
In a chat with Zoho evangelist Raju Vegesna, he said outside of Microsoft Excel, Zoho Sheet is the only product to auto-generate Visual Basic code based on user actions. Earlier this year Zoho Sheet added support for pivot tables. And check out our interview with Raju to learn more about Zoho.
Regarding the claim “he said outside of Microsoft Excel, Zoho Sheet is the only product to auto-generate Visual Basic code based on user actions”- this is uninformed at best and malicious at worst! Open Office Calc has been supporting Excel VBA macros for eons…as do all the commercial, closed-source variants of OO – Lotus Symphony, Star Office, NeoOffice et al…
Did you see the new Pivot Table of Google Spreadsheet… very cool
check out the demo here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb28VVDTDpg
Ok, I don’t even understand Macro for Dummies. All I want to do is create a constant sorting ascending to descending – as data is updated in a particulare column that has data from a Vloopup command coming from other worksheets. I would like for it to be automatic.
I don’t understand the language. I would like to learn it. Where can I find entry level training or book. But for now, I need a quick fix.