Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) was long the undisputed king of the spreadsheet, but its dominance is finally waning. From security nightmares to the rise of modern tools, the era of legacy macros ...

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 ...

Bill Detwiler shows you how to add the Developer tab to the Ribbon in Word and Excel 2016 and Office 365, and use it to and open the Visual Basic Editor (VBE). If you can only read one tech story a ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic was named the "Most Dreaded" programming language for three years in a row by the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.

If you want to enable or disable Trust access to Visual Basic Project in Office apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc., you can do so with the help of the in-built option, Local Group Policy ...

When you type data into an Excel workbook, the sheet's name appears in a tab at the bottom of the application window. When you edit the page code, the name isn't always so obvious. Although the Visual ...

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

When you digitally sign an Excel macro, you add a unique, encrypted signature to your VBA project. This signature works like a tamper-evident seal on a medicine bottle; it shows that no one has ...

Cutting and pasting in Microsoft Office applications saves you untold hours in typing and retyping data and text. If you are like many business users of Microsoft Excel, you probably perform countless ...