macros a thing of the past?

[grammatim]

The Access 2003 For Dummies big book says at the beginning of its
section on macros that macros were being phased out (in Office 2003),
and everyone should just learn VBA instead. Was that a trend that was
later thought better of, or were the authors misinformed, or is it
really being implemented?

 

[Tony Jollans]

I don't know what plans there may be for Macros in Access. If I were you I
would ask in an Access Newsgroup - this one's for Word. In Word, Macros
_are_ VBA; in Access, they are something different.

 

[Beth Melton]

In Access, macros are different than they are in the other Office
applications. In other Office apps the term "macro" is used to refer to a
VBA procedure -- they don't use a Macro Builder like you see in Access, it's
all VBA.

In regards to macros in Access 2007, new features have been added to the
Macro object such as error handling, debugging, variables, and they can now
be embedded in other objects. Doesn't seem like they're being phased out to
me.
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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I would agree that for any serious application, there should be no need to
use macros and they should be avoided.

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