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Macro is short program that executes statements and commands specified in its
source code.
You make macros in IDEA with IDEAScript, an object oriented programming language - consistent
with Microsoft's Visual Basic and LotusScript.
As written in IDEA Help
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"Scripts, which are often called macros, can be created either
by recording a series of IDEA steps, by copying from other scripts,
by copying from the History, or by typing into a Macro Window.
Often a combination of all three methods is used with the main steps being recorded,
additional items copied in and then final editing in the Macro Window.
Scripts can be attached to the Tools menu or to a Toolbar Macro Button or run simply
from the Tools Macro menu.
It is not necessary to open the Macro Window to run a script although scripts can be run
from within this window."
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Using macros you can automate audit routines, e.g. have sophisticated analyses and
exception tests made just clicking a macro button in toolbar. To put it there
select: "View - Customize Toolbar... Macro Commands.."; 1) select icon;
2) search the macro in "Command"; 3) drag and drop the icon into Toolbar.
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In this section you will be introduced some simple scripts that you can use
as such or after modification in macros of your own.
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