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  1. Oct 11, 2017 Thanks for your video above. I’m contemplating moving from PC to Mac, and trying (without much success) to understand how complete the VBA implementation is in Mac Office 2016. I recently tested an xlsm file I wrote in PC Excel 2007 on a friend’s Mac Office 2016, and it choked on trying to create a Word file from within Excel.
  2. There are two kinds of add-ins: Office Add-ins from the Office Store (which use web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and add-ins made by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). If you're looking for a built-in add-in such as Solver or Analysis ToolPak, select the Tools menu and then select Add-ins. Get an Office Store add-in.
  3. Mar 30, 2021 Data scraping is the technique that helps in the extraction of desired information from a HTML web page to a local file present in your local machine. Normally, a local file cou Web Scraping with VBA.
  4. Home Excel Visual Basic Editor (Windows + MAC) – The Ultimate Guide. Written by Puneet for Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016, Excel 2019, Excel for Mac. Visual Basic Editor is a code editor for VBA. It’s a separate application but you can only use it with Excel. You need to have the developer tab on the ribbon to.

Oct 31, 2020 If you have used Selenium in any language, including VBA, then the rest is pretty easy to follow from the given code examples. Of course, this involves a change in language (from VBA) and this doesn't solve the real problem about writing something that can run on most people's machines without extra installs, but does look like the way forward.

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Office Scripts and VBA macros have a lot in common. They both allow users to automate solutions through an easy-to-use action recorder and allow edits of those recordings. Both frameworks are designed to empower people who may not consider themselves programmers to create small programs in Excel.The fundamental difference is that VBA macros are developed for desktop solutions and Office Scripts are designed for secure, cloud-based solutions. Currently, Office Scripts are only supported in Excel on the web.

This article describes the main differences between VBA macros (as well as VBA in general) and Office Scripts. Since Office Scripts are only available for Excel, that is the only host being discussed here.

Platform and ecosystem

VBA is designed for the desktop and Office Scripts are designed for the web. VBA can interact with a user's desktop to connect with similar technologies, such as COM and OLE. However, VBA has no convenient way to call out to the internet.

Office Scripts use a universal runtime for JavaScript. This gives consistent behavior and accessibility, regardless of the machine being used to run the script. They can also make calls to other web services.

Security

VBA macros have the same security clearance as Excel. This gives them full access to your desktop. Office Scripts only have access to the workbook, not the machine hosting the workbook. Additionally, no JavaScript authentication tokens can be shared with scripts. This means the script has neither the tokens of the signed-in user nor are there any API capabilities for signing in to an external service, so they are unable to use existing tokens to make external calls on behalf of the user.

Admins have three options for VBA macros: allow all macros on the tenant, allow no macros on the tenant, or allow only macros with signed certificates. This lack of granularity makes it hard to isolate a single bad actor. Currently, Office Scripts can be off for an entire tenant, on for an entire tenant, or on for a group of users in a tenant. Admins also have control over who can share scripts with others and who can use scripts in Power Automate.

Coverage

Currently, VBA offers a more complete coverage of Excel features, particularly those available on the desktop client. Office Scripts cover nearly all of the scenarios for Excel on the web. Additionally, as new features debut on the web, Office Scripts will support them for both the Action Recorder and JavaScript APIs.

Office Scripts don't support Excel-level events. Scripts are only run when a user manually starts them or when a Power Automate flow calls the script.

Power Automate

Office Scripts can be run through Power Automate. Your workbook can be updated through scheduled or event-driven flows, letting you automate workflows without even opening Excel. This means that as long as your workbook is stored in OneDrive (and accessible to Power Automate), a flow can run your scripts regardless of whether you and your organization use Excel's desktop, Mac, or web client.

VBA doesn't have a Power Automate connector. All supported VBA scenarios involve a user attending to the macro's execution.

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Try the Call scripts from a manual Power Automate flow tutorial to start learning about Power Automate. You can also check out the Automated task reminders sample to see Office Scripts connected to Teams through Power Automate in a real-world scenario.

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The first thing MS wants...

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Quote: 'The last thing Microsoft wants, though, is for its lucrative Office for Mac market to migrate to OpenOffice.'

However, the very first thing MS wants, because it will be the only way for Mac users to achieve anywhere close to compatibility (either in VBA or with Exchange - Entourage 2008 is also crippleware yet again), is for Intel Mac users to migrate away from Mac Office to a copy of Office 2007 *and* Windows Vista or XP running via Bootcamp/Parallels/VMware Fusion. This makes even more money for them as it means an OS sale as well as an Office sale, and will allow them to drop the MBU like a stone (not enough profits and users etc) within two to three years.

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Regardless, whatever their reasons for dropping VBA, I do not see the first ever release of VSTO in Office 2008 thus ensuring Mac users get a head start on their Windows counterparts, so I call bullshit on the MBU's claims.

Office 2008 is dead in the water and that is precisely what MS wants, imo.