This time it’ll work-really, it will.”īut selecting Tools -> Macros in Excel 2008 ( ) would only remind me, once again, that the Macros menu was but a mere shell of its former Excel 2004 self. “Go ahead,” it would whisper, “You know you want to. For years, Excel 2008 has been teasing me: Every time I launched the app, I’d see that menu item, mocking me, tempting me to click.