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 ...

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 ...

Starting in early April, Microsoft plans to make it tougher to enable VBA macros that are downloaded from the internet in several of its Office apps. The effect, the company hopes, will be to ...

For years, VBA (Virtual Basic for Applications) has been the go-to language for automating tasks and extending the functionality of Microsoft Excel. However, the rise of Python, coupled with its ...

Microsoft’s attempt to thwart malicious actors from tricking users into executing malware and ransomware, by blocking Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Excel 4.0 (XL4) macros by default in its ...

Microsoft announced today that it will make it difficult to enable VBA macros downloaded from the Internet in several Microsoft Office apps starting in early April, effectively killing a popular ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in the endless loop of repetitive tasks in Excel—manually formatting rows, cleaning up data, or applying the same calculations over and over again? It’s frustrating, ...

Excel macros let you automate repetitive tasks for substantial time savings. Here’s how to put them to work for you. If you regularly work with Excel spreadsheets, you probably find yourself repeating ...