Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and the ...

The questions plaguing users of Microsoft Excel—JavaScript support, slow Mac development cycles, the lack of Easter eggs—all apparently come down to one thing: prioritizing developer resources. The ...

Enhancements in the .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 make Office automation solutions easier than ever to write and deploy. Here's an Excel automation scenario that reflects solutions that I've ...

Spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel, part of the Office program suite, is essential to the operation of many small businesses. Spreadsheets can be used for tracking almost any aspect of a ...

Low-code development tools like Microsoft’s Power Platform are more than a way for users to build the apps they need when they need them. They’re a way to rapidly building code that’s needed urgently.

One of the handiest things you can do with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Office 2011 is to share data between two different Office apps. For example, let’s say you want to embed data from ...

But there are signs of new life in the VB ecosystem, most recently on the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) side of things. This week saw a couple of improvements to Rubberduck, a project to upgrade ...

Creating visually engaging dashboards in Excel doesn’t always require complex formulas or external add-ons. My Online Training Hub demonstrates how the often-overlooked REPT function can be used to ...

Microsoft's spreadsheet software, Excel, treats the year 1900 as a leap year, even though it wasn't actually one. Microsoft explains that this is for compatibility with older spreadsheet software, and ...