VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications, a programming language that includes special commands specific to Excel.

Performance becomes an issue with large datasets too. A poorly written macro can bog down Excel and take forever to complete, ...

Excel sheets read data in cells using cell references, which are the addresses that identify each cell. Visual Basic macros also read data using cell references, extracting data by reading the ...

JD Sartain A sample of the macro’s Visual Basic code, which Excel writes for you, in the VBA editor If you plan to write a lot of macros, it’s a good idea to (at least) view your macros in the ...

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 ...

For those who would like to “look under the hood” and see the VB code that Excel wrote for the macro, click on Tools , Macros and Visual Basic Editor . Here you can view the code, and once you become ...

Office 2004 included support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Office 2008 didn't. Now, VBA is back in Office 2011, and Rob Griffiths couldn't be happier.

You have an Excel 2011 spreadsheet compiling sales data and a sales report that you're writing in Word 2011: How do you get the Excel numbers into your report? Here's a simple Visual Basic macro ...

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 ...