Macros are available in all Microsoft Office apps, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. A macro records your keystrokes and mouse clicks and lets you execute complex tasks with a single click.

Though Microsoft has backed off earlier plans to block unsafe macros in Excel documents, that change is still coming. Here's what to do now to stay secure.

How to Copy Excel Macros From One PC to Another. Microsoft Excel's implementation of Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA, helps you record or write macros that turn sequences of tasks and ...

If you have simple tasks that you need to perform in Excel often, you can actually “teach” Excel to do them for you by recording a macro.

VBA is the programming language used with Microsoft Excel and other Office applications that allows you to automate almost any task in an Office application.

A new antivirus and Office 365 integration from Microsoft allows for scanning malicious macro scripts written in XLM at runtime.

VBA macros in Excel use the internal Microsoft programming language to automate manual tasks and create user-generated custom functions.

Microsoft has announced a application policy change for customers, saying that it will now restrict the usage of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros by default. Malicious actors often used it as an attack surface.

Tricking someone into enabling macros on a downloaded Microsoft Excel or Word file is an old hacker chestnut. That one click from a target creates a foothold for attackers to take over their ...

Macros allow you to run a set of pre-programmed actions with one click or button press, helping you save time and avoid repetition.