Office 2004 included support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Office 2008 didn't. Now, VBA is back in Office 2011, and Rob Griffiths couldn't be happier.

Visual Basic macros also read data using cell references, extracting data by reading the cell's Value property. This lets macros run scripts using the cells' contents.

Microsoft is rolling back a planned change to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in a variety of Office apps. Announced earlier this year, Microsoft had been planning to ...

Running the macro In the topmost toolbar, an icon has been created (yellow smiley, in my case). By clicking on this macro, you are asked if you want to create a list sorted by word or by frequency.

Microsoft Office 2008 does not include Visual Basic capabilities in any form. There is no execution of newly or previously compiled macros, and the macros cannot be edited in Office 2008.

Zoho Sheet, the company's Web-based spreadsheet, just added over a dozen new features, including support for Visual Basic macros (the same kind used in Excel) and pivot tables/charts (which are ...

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 ...

As of version 11, macros will no longer be available in Visual Studio. This marks the first version in nearly a decade to not allow for crating ad-hock extensions to the IDE. Fully compiled ...

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 ...

The company said today that the running of Visual Basic macros will be blocked by default in five Office applications, starting in April. "While we provided a notification bar to warn users ...