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gsf-vba-dump(1)

gsf-vba-dump1

Extract visual basic for applications macros

Usage

gsf-vba-dump [FILE] ...

Overview

This manual page briefly documents the gsf-vba-dump command.

Various Microsoft binary data formats, including Excel (.xls), Word (.doc) and PowerPoint (.ppt) can embed macro code streams. These macro streams are in P-code (intermediate language) compiled from Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

The gsf-vba-dump utility extracts these macro streams.

Bugs

Macro extraction from Powerpoint (.ppt) files has not been implemented yet.

License

gsf-vba-dump is licensed under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation. For information on this license look at the source code that came with the software or see the GNU project page ⟨URL: http://www.gnu.org ⟩.

Authors

gsf-vba-dump's primary author is Jody Goldberg <[email protected]>.

The initial version of this manpage was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[email protected]>.

From libgsf 1.14.60-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.