Performance becomes an issue with large datasets too. A poorly written macro can bog down Excel and take forever to complete, ...

Microsoft Visual Basic for Application is a powerful program that enables non-programmers to record, create, and edit macros that automate tasks in Microsoft Office applications.

VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications, a programming language that includes special commands specific to Excel.

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 ...

Printing and reading through your macros will help you learn more about how Excel’s macro language (Visual Basic) works. You don’t have to be a programmer to debug macros, and the more you ...

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.

Office 2004 included support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Office 2008 didn't. Now, VBA is back in Office 2011, and Rob Griffiths couldn't be happier.

You have an Excel 2011 spreadsheet compiling sales data and a sales report that you're writing in Word 2011: How do you get the Excel numbers into your report? Here's a simple Visual Basic macro ...

Microsoft has disabled Excel 4.0 macros by default in the latest release of its spreadsheet software to help customers protect themselves against related security threats. That setting, released ...