No VBA in Office

[Charles Dyer]

On 22 Nov, 2006, at 12:54, Mark Smith wrote:

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> 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.
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> Does lack of support for VBA mean that *no* Excel macros will work  
> in Excel 12, or whatever its going to be called ?

If I understand things correctly, no macros will work. Functions and  
other such stuff will work, but a whole lot of Stupid Excel Tricks  
are stone cold dead. There is no reason to buy Excel, not when  
OpenOffice exists and is free, and when Apple is almost certain to  
drop a spreadsheet into iWork next year.