Excel can send alerts based on spreadsheet data, but you'll need to write a macro to do it. We'll show you how.

However, these functions are not so useful for masking strings that contain references to macro variables because it is possible that the macro variable could resolve to a value not quotable by %STR ...

I like using BIND zone files for macro examples, because it's the file I most often use macros in myself. Because multiple people often edit zone files, they may not all have the same formatting.

Because these preprocessor macros run before the code is interpreted, this causes the preprocessor to write the same code as in the original example.