From: "John Beamish" 

I didn't say conspiracy.  I was simply pointing out that I (and a number of
the comps I have worked for) made extensive use of VBA macros (not just
formulae).

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:42:53 -0500, RobertB  wrote:

> 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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