Microsoft announced on Monday that it will be bringing a new default for Windows Office users that is said to "block Internet macros by default." Microsoft's new Internet macro blocking scheme will be ...

Microsoft has released the first Technical Preview (think pre-beta) of Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) Macros, an extension of the Windows Speech Recognition capabilities in Windows Vista. The 2.77MB ...

Do you have information on the availability of VBA macros for Office on Windows RT? Office for Windows RT is supposed to be the same Office as the one on Windows 8. Even: Office vice president P J ...

Text expansion generally refers to the way a few typed letters can expand into entire words, sentences, or even paragraphs. It’s a simple idea but an incredible time-saver. Text expansion generally ...

Starting in early April, Microsoft plans to make it tougher to enable VBA macros that are downloaded from the internet in several of its Office apps. The effect, the company hopes, will be to ...

Historically, malicious Office macros have been the equivalent of email’s phishing attempts, launching malware at the click of a user’s mouse. But Microsoft unexpectedly has reinstated VBA macros ...

You use Microsoft Word and have saved a healthy collection of macros to ease your work–now you’re migrating to a different PC and want to take those macros with you. No problem: You can import your ...

There are two fundamental truths that define our information society. First, computers can do some amazing things. And second, users don’t share a common level of expertise when it comes to personal ...

Tricking someone into enabling macros on a downloaded Microsoft Excel or Word file is an old hacker chestnut. That one click from a target creates a foothold for attackers to take over their devices.

A form of Word macro-based malware has been uncovered that can affect both macOS and Windows users when executed, with the malicious file modifying its attack method depending on which operating ...