As previously reported, Microsoft will drop support for Visual Basic macros in Office 2008 for Mac OS X. We subsequently reported that this state of affairs means that Office 2004 with the addition of ...

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 ...

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Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) was long the undisputed king of the spreadsheet, but its dominance is finally waning. From security nightmares to the rise of modern tools, the era of legacy macros ...

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 ...

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 ...

Creating a macro in Microsoft Excel allows you to program automatic tasks into a spreadsheet or template that can contain multiple commands or functions for easy access and use. After these macros are ...