[Sheflug] Re: Office apps

[Richard Ibbotson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen

> presumably you're still stuffed if you've got visual basic macros
> for M$-Office apps that you want to preserve?

Presumably.

Your own local circumstances must be different from those which I have 
observed and witnessed in many other places.  Even if I speak to 
local Sheffield NHS people they tell me that they prefer not to use 
VB macros with Mircro$loth office.  I myself after speaking to many 
local office secretaries have found that not many of them use such 
things due to the possibility of the documents not being compatible 
with future office apps.  Then there's the issue of viruses being 
spread by VB macros.  You get a similar kind of effect from fires in 
large forests.  A fire can explosively move two miles through a 
forest due to local conditions.  Similar things happen with viruses 
and networks.

Don't understand why someone at your end of the world advocated the 
use of VB macros.  You might be able to get round it in a few seconds 
with Gtk+.  Probably have to read a book to do that.

Someone else will probably do a lot better than me in understanding 
your problems :)


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Thanks



Richard
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