Though macros can be used maliciously, they have many productivity benefits with the right computer settings.

A word of warning Before using macros, you’ll want to make sure the security settings in both Word and Excel are set not to run macros automatically. In the early days, any macro that was ...

Rolling back the default block on untrusted VBA macros in Office was seen as a bad move given how frequently hackers and scammers abused the ability for users to click to enable macros.