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. 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.

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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.

Hi Am I missing something? I've been periodically using the Excel 2016 for Mac updates but quickly abandoned them because my sheets rely so heavily on VBA and support for that seemed to be missing.

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I've updatd to the production version today (15.2).and it still seems to be the case? The Visual Basic editor is.ahem.extremely basic with no menus, right click functions or anything. No ability to insert new modules either. Shortcuts don't work (breakpoint, run etc). What's going on? Please tell me there's some security setting i need to switch or something.please tell me there's basically no way to create macros enabled spreadsheets in Office for Mac 2016?