From: "John Beamish" 

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/

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