No VBA in Office

[Ashley Aitken]

On 23/11/2006, at 1:54 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

>
> On 22 Nov 2006, at 13:45, Charles Dyer wrote:
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>> For me and those I support, there was one reason, and one reason  
>> only, to stick with MS Office: compatibility with Office in  
>> Windows, including macros.
>
> Does lack of support for VBA mean that *no* Excel macros will work  
> in Excel 12, or whatever its going to be called ?

Yes, no Excel macros will work in the next version of Excel (for the  
Mac).  However, one shouldn't confuse this with Excel functions  
(equations in cells) that will still work fine.

The problem is there are a lot of power users of Excel that use VBA  
to make Excel do some pretty amazing (or horrific, depends on the way  
you look at it) things.

They've just lost the biggest reason (for them) to buy MS Office for  
a Mac (or a Mac in some cases).

Cheers,
Ashley.