Office VBA and ChatGPT

There has been a lot of buzz recently aboutChatGPT and other generative AIs. It's reached the point where even mainstream TV news programs have had segments about it. However, I haven't yet seen mainstream mention of the fact that ChatGPT can write programming code, although podcasters like Steve Gibson have discussed that at length. 

Office Watch has picked up on the code generation and published a couple of articles showing how ChatGPT can write Office VBA code. In my last job, I wrote many VBA macros for Microsoft Word and scavenged many more from the Internet. (Thanks, Paul Beverly!) ChatGPT would also have been useful. While the code may not work for complex macros, it does seem to be good enough to give you a starting framework to work from.

Here are the two articles from Office Watch.

• Easily learn and make Office VBA with ChatGPT
• More adventures with Office VBA and ChatGPT

A third article describes Microsoft's plans to use AI to help people write documents. 

Given how structured technical documentation can be, technical writers have a right to be worried.