visual basic for applications

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Visual Basic for Applications
VBA

   <programming> (VBA) {Microsoft}'s common language for
   manipulating components of its {Microsoft Office} suite.  It
   is used as the {macro} language for these applications and is
   the primary means of customising and extending them.  A VBA
   program operates on {objects} representing the application and
   the entities it manipulates, e.g. a {spreadsheet} or a range
   of cells in {Microsoft Excel}.

   [Relationship to {Visual BASIC}?  URL?]

   (1999-09-12)