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 ...

On the Developer tab, click the Visual Basic button in the Code group. A Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window will open. Click the Insert tab and select Module in the menu. A new model is ...

Once upon a time, Visual Basic macros were one of the prevailing forms of malware. Visual Basic for Applications (or VBA) is used to automate functions, and make programs like the Word and Excel much ...

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft today announced that five Office applications will block Visual ...

Microsoft appears to have quietly, and without fanfare, reversed a February 2022 policy to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across five of the most used Office applications, ...

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 ...

The Gamaredon APT has started using a new VBA macro to target Microsoft Outlook victims’ contact lists. The Gamaredon threat group has given its post-compromise toolset a facelift with the addition of ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In July 1995, a proof-of-concept macro virus, fittingly ...