Excel sheets read data in cells using cell references, which are the addresses that identify each cell. Visual Basic macros also read data using cell references, extracting data by reading the cell's ...

For years, Excel 2008 has been teasing me: Every time I launched the app, I’d see that menu item, mocking me, tempting me to click. “Go ahead,” it would whisper, “You know you want to. This time it’ll ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is rolling back a planned change to block Visual Basic for ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: A macro is a rule or a pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence (sequence of characters) according to a ...

The announcement last week from Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) that Virtual PC for Mac will be discontinued, and that future versions of Microsoft Office for Mac will lack support for ...

But there are signs of new life in the VB ecosystem, most recently on the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) side of things. This week saw a couple of improvements to Rubberduck, a project to upgrade ...

Near the end of yesterday's press release announcing Microsoft Office 2008 SP1 (12.1) is a statement indicating that Visual Basic will be returning to the suite with its next major revision. Erik ...

Microsoft is taking a step towards blocking malware-bearing macros, one of the biggest tools used by threat actors to spread malware through phishing. The company said today that the running of Visual ...

Once upon a time, Visual Basic macros were one of the prevailing forms of malware. Visual Basic for Applications (or VBA) is used to automate functions, and make programs like the Word and Excel much ...