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to: RobertB
from: Robert Comer
date: 2006-12-13 08:39:52
subject: Re: Mac Office - next gen without VBA

From: "Robert Comer" 

> Sheesh. Conspiracy! Conspiracy! How critical is VBA to day-to-day Excel
> use?

Extremely critical around here, no budget or time to rewrite it in something else...

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Bob Comer





"RobertB"  wrote in message
news:missinglink-7DA95A.17425311122006{at}news.barkto.com...
> In article
> ,
> "John Beamish"  wrote:
>
>> I can't imagine using Excel without VBA.  Although there are alternative
>> approaches, I'm not sure an office (lower case "o")
could work in a
>> multi-platform environment where one Office (upper case "O") had a
>> different scripting mechanism from the other Office".
>>
>> http://www.macworld.com/2006/12/opinion/microsoft/
>
> Sheesh. Conspiracy! Conspiracy! How critical is VBA to day-to-day Excel
> use?

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