Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and the ...

Learning even basic VBA scripting can completely change how you use Excel, turning it from a static tool into a personal automation powerhouse. By recording macros, tweaking simple code, and gradually ...

Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code. With both methods, users click a ...

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 ...

Bill Detwiler shows you how to add the Developer tab to the Ribbon in Word and Excel 2016 and Office 365, and use it to and open the Visual Basic Editor (VBE). If you can only read one tech story a ...

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 ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are reshaping the landscape of software development, particularly in the realm of generating Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code. These innovative solutions are ...

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...