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 ...

Excel macros save you time and headaches by automating common, repetitive tasks, and you don’t have to be a programmer or know Visual Basic Applications (VBA) to write one. With Excel, it’s as simple ...

A Microsoft Word document with a malicious macro embedded as part of an IRS-themed malware campaign. Image Credits: Microsoft. Microsoft said it is still planning to block Visual Basic Applications ...

How to run a VBA procedure from a data validation control in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent There are lots of ways to execute a VBA procedure in Microsoft Excel. You can add macro buttons at ...

Tom Warren 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 ...

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 ...

After rolling back restrictions on internet macros in Office, Microsoft now says it is was a temporary change and that it will be bring back the ban on macros as the default for all users in future.

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 ...

Microsoft confirmed this week that it will soon start blocking Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros in Office apps by default after quietly rolling back the change earlier this month. In a new ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...