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 ...

If you have been following Macro Anatomy, you should be comfortable with macro basics by now. If not, you may want to consider taking a moment to review what we have covered thus far. For the rest of ...

is a senior correspondent 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 ...

How to execute a VBA sub procedure in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent Once you stick your toe into the VBA waters, you’ll realize how powerful and flexible VBA is. Not only is the language ...

Welcome, troops, to the final stage of your lock-step macro training. This phase is when you will learn all about modifier keys. I had planned to include conditionals in the Run Phase, but that ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in the endless loop of repetitive tasks in Excel—manually formatting rows, cleaning up data, or applying the same calculations over and over again? It’s frustrating, ...

Over the years, Microsoft has evolved from a word processor into a database, Web design program, and floor wax. Among its thousands of features, macros are power-user tools that could benefit a lot of ...

I used to think Excel macros were overkill because I had to go through the trouble of recording steps and tweaking code for something I could easily do manually. Then I was tasked with standardizing ...