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 ...

Image: Sai/Adobe Stock. Visual Basic for Applications is the language behind the Office apps that allows you to automate tasks. But using VBA in Word has its challenges.

Click the Visual Basic icon in the ribbon's Code tab to launch the Visual Basic for Applications window. Select the macro in the window's Project box that you want to read Excel's data.

Image Credits: Microsoft. Microsoft said it is still planning to block Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros by default in Office apps after quietly rolling back the planned change last month.

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.

Microsoft confirmed this week that it will soon start blocking Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros in Office apps by default after quietly rolling back the change earlier this month.. In a new ...