Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would restore support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to Microsoft Office for Mac, a direct result of complaints from users about the removal of the suite's cross-platform automation functionality. Microsoft will return VBA to the next full upgrade to the Mac version of Office, the company said.

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While Office 2008, which was for omitting VBA, will receive bug-fix updates (such as Service Pack 1, ), it will not be updated to add VBA support. 'We know [VBA] is important to a section of our user base who needs cross platform compatibility,' said Kurt Schmucker, Mac Business Unit group product manager and lead evangelist. 'And we're bringing that back.' VBA is a programming language used with Microsoft Office applications, making it relatively easy to add automation (macros) and customization (menus, dialogs, and so on) to Office documents. VBA was part of Office 2004, but Microsoft that Office 2008 would not have VBA support. Schmucker explained that VBA on the Mac was 'uniquely designed for PPC architecture' and thus difficult to carry over to the Intel-native Office 2008.

Diverting resources to do so, he said, would have required, or significantly cutting back on the product's features. Microsoft has since added resources to work on getting VBA support ready for the next major version of Office for Mac. Schmucker said that VBA support will have at least the same functionality of Office 2004, and probably some additional features from the Windows version of Office. Although Microsoft offered no specific date when users could expect the next version of Office for Mac, the company said the product is typically revised every two to three years. Office 2008 was released on January 15, 2008, a little more than three-and-a-half years after the May 2004 release of Office 2004.

I don't think anyone outside Microsoft really knows. But I'd say that Microsoft cannot afford to drop VBA since there are so many businesses and organizations that rely on VBA code in their documents, workbooks, databases etc. So even if the emphasis would shift to other ways of writing code for MS Office, such as JavaScript, they will probably keep on supporting VBA. For comparison: Microsoft Word switched from WordBasic to VBA when Word 97 was released in 1996, over 21 years ago. Yet, WordBasic still works in Word 2016, and it is even being kept up-to-date to support new features introduced long after its official demise.

Similarly, Excel 4.0 macros still work in Excel 2016, although Excel 4.0 was released more than 25 years ago and VBA for Excel was introduced in 1993. --- Kind regards, HansV www.eileenslounge.com. This is what I believe and it’s good to hear that someone else has similar thoughts. I started programming professionally with WordBasic and am surprised to know that it still works! The World is run via VBA powered Excel spread sheets and it would be an insane idea for Microsoft to pull VBA completely, but I’m still not entirely convinced they won’t do so.

There have been some questionable decisions recently and the refusal to issue a formal statement regarding VBA is concerning. My guess would be that they are hedging their bets, but I think a fairly aggressive Windows 10 policy after the disasters of Vista and 8 is an indication of their thinking.

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BTW, (most) Excel 4.0 macros may still work, but their effects can be subtly different from the original intention;0).