VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications, a programming language that includes special commands specific to Excel.

Fortunately, Excel also features an integrated Visual Basic editor known as "Visual Basic for Applications" (VBA) that allows for complex script creation.

Open Microsoft Excel and click the Developers tab. Click the Visual Basic icon to open the VBA editor. Click the "Tools" link on the VBA editor menu bar.

This week saw a couple of improvements to Rubberduck, a project to upgrade the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) and "Bring the VBE into this century!" VBA is based on the now-deprecated "classic" Visual ...

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.