Learning even basic VBA scripting can completely change how you use Excel, turning it from a static tool into a personal automation powerhouse. By recording macros, tweaking simple code, and gradually ...

As previously reported, Microsoft will drop support for Visual Basic macros in Office 2008 for Mac OS X. We subsequently reported that this state of affairs means that Office 2004 with the addition of ...

Microsoft says it’s fully committed to making the change Microsoft says it’s fully committed to making the change is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

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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 ...

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 ...

For years, Excel 2008 has been teasing me: Every time I launched the app, I’d see that menu item, mocking me, tempting me to click. “Go ahead,” it would whisper, “You know you want to. This time it’ll ...