If you ever wanted to click a magic button and make complex business tasks happen automatically, macros can make that wish come true. Macros are small programs that execute commands you specify. Write ...

Microsoft says it’s fully committed to making the change Microsoft says it’s fully committed to making the change is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, ...

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) by default when Microsoft Office files for business software are downloaded from the Internet. This decision was made to protect the security of the user, but after ...

5 seconds in google tells me that you can call Access with the "/compact" command line switch. Also, there's a KB article at support.microsoft.com that give further details.

After rolling back restrictions on internet macros in Office, Microsoft now says it is was a temporary change and that it will be bring back the ban on macros as the default for all users in future.

The change started rolling out this week to try to stop people from opening malware-laden files. The change started rolling out this week to try to stop people from opening malware-laden files. is a ...

Microsoft has announced it will begin blocking Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros obtained from the public internet by default across five of its most used Office apps from April 2022, in an ...

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 ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

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 ...