old person needs help in automating keystrokes

[pdsterling]

I am a very old PC user. I came of age using Lotus 1-2-3, and only migrated to Excel unwillingly, when a recruiter told me not to mention antiquated IBM software skills on my resume ;-)

in the old days, I could craft a routine, such as "todays date" which I always called Control+D, and it was convenient. also in mass editing, I could automate steps that were being done over and over.

I have tried six ways to the moon to create a "macro" in the excel definition of the term, but have never gotten it to work successfully. I just finished a spreadsheet where I had to analyze 10,000 lines of data, combining two lines into one, and it was very, very tedious.

I expect I am using the wrong terminology - I have looking in my excel bible and excel hacks, without success. any advice would be gratefully appreciated.

Regards,

P D Sterling
Florida NY

 

[rclarke250]

Since this is a forum for windows mobile, as in navigation systems and such, you might get an answer in the correct forum. forum68 is the Microsoft Office forum, and may give you better exposure to your issue.