Microsoft Excel offers Visual Basic for Application (VBA) as a scripting tool to let you add additional functionality to your Excel spreadsheets.

Launch Excel and click the "Developer" tab above the ribbon menu; then click the "Visual Basic" button. Type "Sub ConvertToText ()" (without quotation marks) into the code pane.

A more modern Excel While Microsoft will continue to support VBA, it’s also working to make Excel more compatible with more modern object-oriented programming languages. Microsoft is beginning ...

Kalyan S. Pasupathy, Alexandra Medina-Borja, Integrating Excel, Access, and Visual Basic to Deploy Performance Measurement and Evaluation at the American Red Cross, Interfaces, Vol. 38, No. 4, The Use ...

Automating Microsoft Office with Visual Basic hasn’t changed much over the course of the product’s lifetime, in large part because of its massive installed base. Any major changes would most ...