Where and How Macros in Excel are Compiled?

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Hi all,
I have done a small task in Excel VBA this morning.How the macros are compiled and whats the compiler in Excel that compile VBA program and where the compiler will be?Is there any MSIL for compiling macros?

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Posted 11-Jan-16 18:08pm

Maniraj.M

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-11T18:49:00

According to this Wikipedia page,
Code written in VBA is compiled to a proprietary intermediate language called P-code (packed code), which the hosting applications (Access, Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint) store as a separate stream in COM Structured Storage files (e.g., .docx or .xlsx) independent of the document streams. The intermediate code is then executed by a virtual machine (hosted by the hosting application).

Please see: ACC: Visual/Access Basic Is Both a Compiler and an Interpreter.

It has nothing to do with "MSIL". This name is obsolete. You need to use the standardized term CIL (Common Intermediate Language). VBA has nothing to do with this language; you can find it out from the articles referenced above.

—SA