Microsoft's ubiquitous spreadsheet application, Excel, is a useful tool for small and large businesses alike. However, the Excel format is proprietary and some software applications aren't able to ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

Microsoft Excel remains a tool of choice for big data mavens, due to the numerous ways it can plug into third-party data sources and massage them with ease. Python, too, has become a go-to technology ...

How to use VBA to reach the beginning and end of a Microsoft Word document Your email has been sent Visual Basic for Applications is the language behind the Office apps that allows you to automate ...