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urezwan
Copper Contributor
Oct 17, 2019

VBA in Excel

In Excel and others in the Suite, how long do you thing visual basic will last? Do you think Microsoft team will replace/complement VB and Python (or R) will take over VB as the coding language for macro writing?

VBA or Python

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  • Haytham Amairah's avatar
    Haytham Amairah
    Silver Contributor
    Oct 17, 2019

    urezwan

     

    Hi,

     

    VBA is an essential part of the Office suite!

    So it can't be replaced easily.

     

    VBA will stay for a very long time because of the enormous macros and projects written in it.
    It lives in millions of workbooks, so I don't think Microsoft will dare break them all.

     

    Excel team might add Python along with VBA as an additional option.

     

    Regards

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