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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the handiest things you can do with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Office 2011 is to share data between two different Office apps. For example, let’s say you want to embed data from ...

I've been treating Excel like a glorified calculator for most of my life. Sure, formulas made doing more complex calculations easier and automatically updated data, and there are free Excel templates ...

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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 ...

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 ...