r/vba is a subreddit with 64k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses vba, excel, macro, struggling, and word.
A place for questions and discussion on Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and its integrated development environment (IDE).
Popular Themes in r/vba
#1
Solution Requests
: "I built a zero-copy JSON parser and writer for VBA with natural chained access"
43 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Any VBA Development to Non-VBA Dev Stories?"
13 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I built a full audio engine for VBA. No DLLs, no COM wrappers, no addins. Just a .bas file"
3 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "I hate this, but my company is really pushing everyone to use LLMs (aka "AI") in the office. I just realized it will write VBA. Obsolete skill?"
2 posts
#5
News
: "Wasabi just hit Awesome VBA + Update v2.3.8"
2 posts
#6
Ideas
: "I made a Discord bot that runs from a hidden Excel sheet. Because why not."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/vba
#1
Vba
: "A collection of ~70 Vba macros for Excel & Outlook (file handling, email automation, data cleanup)"
283 posts
#2
Excel
: "A collection of ~70 VBA macros for Excel & Outlook (file handling, email automation, data cleanup)"
137 posts
#3
Macro
: "PSA: If your Excel Macros broke after a Windows/Office update, check these 4 things before debugging your VBA"
40 posts
#4
Struggling
26 posts
#5
Word
: "VBA or Power Automate for Word tasks to automate?"
17 posts
#6
Automation
: "A collection of ~70 VBA macros for Excel & Outlook (file handling, email Automation, data cleanup)"
10 posts
#7
Outlook
: "Outlook - Recipient.Add Problems after latest update"
8 posts
#8
: "A collection of ~70 VBA macros for Excel & Outlook (file handling, Email automation, data cleanup)"
7 posts
#9
Wasabi
: "Wasabi: a native WebSocket/WSS client module for VBA (TLS, MQTT, proxies, zero dependencies)"
7 posts
#10
Access
: "Get file info without FileObjects? [Access][Excel]"
6 posts
Flair Used in r/vba
#1
Unsolved
: "Rubberduck; is it still great, how and where to download it and how to learn how to use it?"
75 posts
#2
Discussion
: "A collection of ~70 VBA macros for Excel & Outlook (file handling, email automation, data cleanup)"
46 posts
#3
Show & Tell
: "Whenever I open my VBE..."
43 posts
#4
ProTip
: "9 quick tips to improve your VBA macro performance."
25 posts
#5
Weekly Recap
: "This Week's /r/VBA Recap for the week of May 09 - May 15, 2026"
11 posts
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Last updated: July 1, 2026