Excel might be the world's most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to turn it into a better and more powerful programming language, without losing what makes it Excel.

Microsoft Excel runs events using Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA, a programming language for writing macros. Events often run in response to direct user input, such as when a user fills a form ...

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing ...

Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code. With both methods, users click a ...

I'd like to take a brief moment to introduce you to a small project at Microsoft that has received very little press: Small Basic. Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language ...