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I've been developing VBA macros since 20 years. It's largely the same language as it was when I first started. I've made lots of automations with VBA but nowadays, I've almost fully moved to UiPath RPA. I think RPA is very underrated and it should be used in place of VBA for complex automations like button clicks, data entry, scrapping, etc.



I do RPA from VBA personally using IAccessiblity. See stdAcc (https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA/blob/master/src/stdAcc.cls) and an example (https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA-examples/tree/main/Example...). You are basically doing the same as what you'd do in UiPath, by the looks of things. Just a slightly different flow.


interesting, looks promising. ive made both vba and python automated scripts for button clicks etc in other software in the past, could come in handy in future I imagine to have a more dedicated setup. Is UIpath free?


yes, you can download community edition




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