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 ...

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 ...

Excel macros allow you to automate all sorts of tasks, from entering commonly used data to automatic printing and saving of files. Once you start to use Excel, it takes no time at all to create a ...

There have been many types of malware, ever since the dawn of computers. While initially, it was for fun, back in the days of QDOS, malware creating and distribution is now a full-time business, with ...

Use a macro quoting function anytime you want to assign to a macro variable a special character that could be interpreted as part of the macro language. Special Characters and When Macro Quoting is ...

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 Applications ...