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I built my own Excel toolbar using basic VBA, and it works in every spreadsheet I open

VBA may have a bad reputation, but it's still one of the most effective ways to automate repetitive actions in standard XLSX ...
PC Magazine

Word Macros: Beyond the Basics

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Once you've begun recording and using Microsoft Word macros ...
CIOL

Creating visual basic macros in MS Word?

BANGALORE, INDIA: A macro is a rule or a pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence (sequence of characters) according to a ...
Yahoo Finance

Pogue's Basics: How to create a search-and-replace macro in Word

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 ...
CNET

Keeping Visual Basic macros in Office for Mac OS X: Microsoft says macros will survive translation

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 ...
The Verge

Microsoft rolls back blocking Office VBA macros by default

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 ...