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.

How to Allow Excel Macros to Run at Startup. Microsoft Excel macros are designed to automate tasks you perform repeatedly in your spreadsheets and are meant to speed up productivity and increase ...

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

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.

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.

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.

Since April, Microsoft has blocked by default VBA macros obtained from the internet in Office apps on devices running Windows. The in-scope apps included Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word.

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

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