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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

And although VBA is installed by default, accessing the Visual Basic Editor (VBE), through which you’ll enter your VBA code, doesn’t automatically appear in the Ribbon.

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 ...

As of April, Zoho Sheet could already run Visual Basic macros, but now it's possible to record and play them with no VB programming required. Here's the process in a nutshell: ...

Optimize your PowerPoint presentations with consummate macros by creating or inserting Visual Basic macros into your presentations.

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 ...