From the course: Excel Copilot: Building and Maintaining VBA Macros

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Enhancing VBA macro clarity and maintainability with Copilot

Enhancing VBA macro clarity and maintainability with Copilot

From the course: Excel Copilot: Building and Maintaining VBA Macros

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Enhancing VBA macro clarity and maintainability with Copilot

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- [Instructor] Throughout this course, we've created several macros, and as your library of macros grows, it becomes crucial to regularly evaluate and manage them. Without careful oversight, it's easy for entropy and unmanageable, outdated code to build up. The great news about generative AI tools like Copilot is that it can help manage this complexity, preventing you from becoming overwhelmed by the ease with which new code can be generated. It's a bit of a catch-22, but in the best possible way. To follow along with this lesson, open the file enhancing-clarity. In this scenario, you've inherited a macro that's designed to format and summarize a sales data set in Excel. As someone relatively new to VBA, you're not sure how well this macro was originally written. So let's take a look at what we have here. We do have a macro, it's called FormatReport. I'll go ahead and run it. Okay, and it seems to be working, but…

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