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 ...

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Macros in Microsoft Access are powerful tools for automating repetitive tasks, significantly boosting efficiency, and making sure precision in database management. Unlike the complex scripting often ...

Microsoft has announced it will begin blocking Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros obtained from the public internet by default across five of its most used Office apps from April 2022, in an ...

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As far as Microsoft Excel is concerned, a macro is simply a piece of code. This code will be loaded every time you launch the Microsoft Excel software. Macros are pretty useful. They can help you ...

Classic Visual Basic refuses to die. There's just something about Dims and Subs that programmers won't let go of. The granddaddy of rapid application development (RAD) tools -- known for its ...