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

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 ...

Visual Basic macros also read data using cell references, extracting data by reading the cell's Value property. This lets macros run scripts using the cells' contents.

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.

Microsoft Office 2008 does not include Visual Basic capabilities in any form. There is no execution of newly or previously compiled macros, and the macros cannot be edited in Office 2008.

Running the macro In the topmost toolbar, an icon has been created (yellow smiley, in my case). By clicking on this macro, you are asked if you want to create a list sorted by word or by frequency.

How to Link Sheets Using Visual Basic in Excel. Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use ...

A version of BASIC from Microsoft specialized for Windows. A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft applications (see VBA). When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was ...

As of April, Zoho Sheet could already run Visual Basic macros, but now it's possible to record and play them with no VB programming required. Here's the process in a nutshell: ...

Zoho Sheet, the company's Web-based spreadsheet, just added over a dozen new features, including support for Visual Basic macros (the same kind used in Excel) and pivot tables/charts (which are ...