microsoft visual basic for applications excel 2010

I, Chris Newman, founder of TheSpreadsheetGuru, am first and foremost a finance guy. Now before I get too far, let’s back up and talk about me for a minute. To simply put it, it’s something that virtually anyone can teach themselves with very little effort. But there is hope and through this article, I will present my thoughts and predictions about the so-called “inevitable death” of the VBA coding language. I constantly see questions on forums asking “is it worth learning VBA at this point in time?” or “when will VBA stop working?” or better yet, “what is replacing VBA?”.ĭon’t get me wrong, these are all valid questions especially with the way Microsoft has treated VBA over the past 10 years.

With its endless popularity in such programs as Excel, it might come as a surprise that there is this lingering fear VBA is going to be removed from Microsoft Office in the near future. It’s a language that has been around for decades and is one of the easiest coding languages to learn if you don’t have a computer science background.

VBA is a coding language used by millions of people across the world to automate tasks in Microsoft Office products.

Microsoft visual basic for applications excel 2010