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Microsoft will soon begin disabling Excel 4.0 XLM macros by default in Microsoft 365 tenants to protect customers from malicious documents. Excel 4.0 macros, or XLM macros, were first added to Excel ...

You can enable macros in Excel using the Trust Center or enable a specific macro from the security warning at the top of a spreadsheet. Excel supports macros, which ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in the endless loop of repetitive tasks in Excel—manually formatting rows, cleaning up data, or applying the same calculations over and over again? It’s frustrating, ...

Macros are the timesaving magic trick for Office applications because they automate repetitive tasks that gobble time. This week’s feature, which spotlights Excel, is one of several articles featuring ...

As far as Microsoft Excel is concerned, a macro is simply a piece of code. This code will be loaded every time you launch the Microsoft Excel software. Macros are pretty useful. They can help you ...

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. On July 8, Microsoft pulled back from its ...

Researchers discover progressively complex and effective XL4 attacks that take advantage of the many organizations that still rely on the old functionality. Excel 4.0 macros have been around for ...

An Excel macro is an abbreviation for macroinstruction—a sequence of commands (or directives) that tell a computer program or a programming language (such as Visual Basic, C, Assembler, PHP, etc.) to ...

Microsoft Excel online lacks functionality compared to paid versions that include features including advanced formulas and charts. Powerful data analytics tools like Power Query and Power Pivot are ...