(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)