VBA may have a bad reputation, but it's still one of the most effective ways to automate repetitive actions in standard XLSX ...

Visual Basic for Applications can make helpful items such as links appear on screen. You can open an external spreadsheet by clicking a link in an Excel spreadsheet. For instance, you might add an ...

Excel does not always handle a cluttered page very well, especially if you intend to use a workbook on multiple versions of Excel. In this example we will use the Worksheet_SelectionChange event as a ...

This simple procedure can save you a lot of time when you’re finished with your work. Susan Harkins tells you how. Some of us work with several Microsoft Excel workbooks open at the same time. Either ...

Microsoft Excel offers Visual Basic for Application (VBA) as a scripting tool to let you add additional functionality to your Excel spreadsheets. You can use VBA to prompt the user to enter a filename ...

The default active cell format in Microsoft Excel isn’t all that easy to see, but you can use this easy-to-implement code solution to change that. By default, the active cell in Excel is noted by a ...