An online petition in 2005 sought to save Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic for Applications. Still available, that petition has gathered 13,341 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon.

Launch Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic Express. Open the project file in which you want to create a module and command button that creates an Excel spreadsheet from selected data.

Visual Basic 6.0 gives you the convenient ability to programmatically check on the status of an application before you act on it. We'll walk you through the simple API steps to add this ...