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 ...

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

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 ...

Microsoft is starting to enable the restriction of Excel 4.0 macros (XLM) by default for users of Excel in subscriptions, starting with Excel build 16.0.14427.20000 and newer releases, according to a ...

Macros are the timesaving magic trick for Office applications because they automate repetitive tasks that gobble time. This week’s feature, which spotlights Excel, is one of several articles featuring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft announced Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) at Wednesday's PDC keynote. VSTA is a .NET version of its Microsoft's application scripting tool, Visual Basic for Applications, the ...