Microsoft Corp. this week announced Visual Studio Tools for Office that will enable developers to build applications that run in Word and Excel. Robert Green, a lead product manager for Visual Studio, ...

But there are signs of new life in the VB ecosystem, most recently on the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) side of things. This week saw a couple of improvements to Rubberduck, a project to upgrade ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel offers Visual Basic for Application (VBA) as a scripting tool to let you add additional functionality to your Excel spreadsheets. You can use VBA to prompt the user to enter a filename ...

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 ...