You have an Excel 2011 spreadsheet compiling sales data and a sales report that you're writing in Word 2011: How do you get the Excel numbers into your report? Here's a simple Visual Basic macro ...

This add-in works with Microsoft Visual Basic 6. Its application design is similar to Visual Basic's form design, except its controls can be wired together using drag-and-drop mouse operations.

Microsoft has introduced new JavaScript-based macroing capabilities to some Office programs, but nothing with the same mix of capabilities and ease of use that Visual Basic for Applications has.