The announcement last week from Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) that Virtual PC for Mac will be discontinued, and that future versions of Microsoft Office for Mac will lack support for ...
Microsoft has started to release new Windows updates that fix Visual Basic and VBScript issues that were introduced in recent updates. These updates are first rolling out for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows ...
BANGALORE, INDIA: A macro is a rule or a pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence (sequence of characters) according to a ...
Microsoft Excel's implementation of Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA, helps you record or write macros that turn sequences of tasks and commands into pieces of one-click automation. Macros can ...
Near the end of yesterday's press release announcing Microsoft Office 2008 SP1 (12.1) is a statement indicating that Visual Basic will be returning to the suite with its next major revision. Erik ...
Microsoft is taking a step towards blocking malware-bearing macros, one of the biggest tools used by threat actors to spread malware through phishing. The company said today that the running of Visual ...
The change started rolling out this week to try to stop people from opening malware-laden files. The change started rolling out this week to try to stop people from opening malware-laden files. is a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Zoho continues to one-up Google Docs. (Actually, they're more like four or five "up" at this point.) Zoho Sheet, the company's Web-based spreadsheet, just added over a dozen new features, including ...
Macros package a series of processes into a single script, enabling you to execute lengthy or monotonous tasks in just a few clicks. Previous editions of PowerPoint, and other Office products, used ...