VBA is built into most Microsoft Office applications, including Office for Mac OS X (apart from version 2008) and other Microsoft applications such as Microsoft MapPoint and Microsoft Visio, as well as being at least partially implemented in other applications such as ArcGIS, AutoCAD, CATIA, Corel Draw and WordPerfect.
"Visual Basic for Applications (VBA, Visual Basic для приложений) — немного упрощённая реализация языка программирования Visual Basic, встроенная в линейку продуктов Microsoft Office (включая версии для Mac OS), а также во многие другие программные пакеты, такие как AutoCAD, SolidWorks, CorelDRAW, WordPerfect и ESRI ArcGIS.