No VBA in Office

[Glenn Carnagey]

On Nov 22, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Matt Johnston wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2006, at 19:02, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Another classic example of our friends in the MacBU dumbing down  
> products for Mac users.
>
> 1. No Project. But we have a planner in Entourage for "Soccer Moms"
>
> 2. No Access. Because FileMaker is entrenched...
>
> 3. No VBA in Excel. Because Macros are hard, mmkay

4. No Visio. Because... well just because they can.

g./