I in process of converting project from lotus 123 script to excel VBA , I have been doing long research I found some material but could not find an answer to the following is someone can tall me what is {SET "MACRO-TRACE";"OFF"} , and {SELECT-APPEND B:P1628;B:P1628} mean in VBA and what are the lines in VBA that equivalent to those lines thank you in advance for any help