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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft says it’s fully committed to making the change Microsoft says it’s fully committed to making the change is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

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 ...

Microsoft has started to release new Windows updates that fix Visual Basic and VBScript issues that were introduced in recent updates. These updates are first rolling out for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows ...

is a senior correspondent 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 ...

Historically, malicious Office macros have been the equivalent of email’s phishing attempts, launching malware at the click of a user’s mouse. But Microsoft unexpectedly has reinstated VBA macros ...

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 ...

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 much ...