1. Open your Excel workbook containing the data to be formatted. 2. Access the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) editor, typically by pressing Alt + F11. 3. Insert a new module in the VBA editor. 4.

Altair Basic was developed by Gates, fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and programmer Monte Davidoff. The trio reportedly coded “day and night for two months” in 1975.

Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co-founder Bill Gates has released the company's original source code. Gates and Paul Allen wrote it in BASIC using a PDP-10 mainframe at Harvard ...