macros

Macros can be a great way to automate mundane functions in your favorite games, or give you a slight speed advantage in high actions-per-minute games, like real-time strategy and MOBA games. While there are some gaming keyboards that come with prerecorded macros for you to use, you still need to apply them, and for most gaming keyboards, you'll need to record them yourself. But how do you actually do that? Fortunately, most keyboard manufacturers have their own backend software that makes the process very…

The macro environment for Indian IT companies persists to be weak with global clients tightening their purse strings and the competition to grab existing deals in the market getting fiercer, company executives said as first quarter of the fiscal draws to a close.HCLTech chief executive C Vijayakumar has said fiscal 2024 could be a “challenging year” for growth, according to a report by brokerage Kotak Institutional Equities.“A subdued demand environment, which reduces operating leverage through growth, clients getting…

Photo by Bench Accounting on UnsplashI used to copy and paste SQL queries that were almost identical, thinking that it was the only way to work with SQL.Fortunately, I accepted a new position as an Analytics Engineer and discovered dbt, an amazing tool to build data models with dynamic queries and model dependencies.With dbt we could use macros and not rewrite the same pieces of SQL twice. I soon realized that even though we tried to have reusable code inside our projects, we often had identical pieces of code in…

Practical Lessons from anyinput, a New Macro for Easily Accepting String/Path/Iterator/Array-Like InputsThe Rust crab programming itself — Source: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/I love the Rust programming language, but it’s not perfect. For example, do you know how to write a Rust function that accepts any string-like thing as an input? What about accepting an iterator of any kind of path? Can you write a function that accepts a Vec<f32> as an ndarray::ArrayView1?Rust functions can accept all these inputs, but I find…

Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used programs for creating spreadsheets and has some robust tools that can carry out some useful functions. This also includes the use of Excel macros, which can reduce the need for manual data entry. You can automate routine tasks with macros, like adding up students' grades across all of their subjects, etc.For instance, suppose you have a spreadsheet consisting of a list of teams with their scores listed in different matches. Now you can record a macro by doing the task on one…

There’s been a bit of back and forth since the change was originally announced, but this week Microsoft started rolling out an update to Microsoft Office that blocks the use of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros on downloaded documents. Last month, Microsft was testing the new default setting when it suddenly rolled back the update, “temporarily while we make some additional changes to enhance usability.” Despite saying it was temporary, many experts worried that Microsoft might not go through with changing…

Microsoft Excel is by far the most well-known app out there for creating spreadsheets. Now Excel files look rather innocuous at first with rows and columns full of data, but seasoned Excel users know that the app has some insanely powerful tools that perform some extremely advanced functions. One of the ways to do this is by enabling macros in Excel to reduce manual data entry and to let Excel do what it's best at. In this guide, we'll tell you what macros are, how to enable macros in Microsoft Excel and how to use them…

Microsoft is rolling back a planned change to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in a variety of Office apps. Announced earlier this year, Microsoft had been planning to prevent Office users from easily enabling certain content in files downloaded from the internet that include macros, in a move to improve security against malicious files. Microsoft had been testing this change ahead of a planned rollout to all Microsoft 365 users in June, but suddenly reverted the block on June 30th.…