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Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008Microsoft are bringing back VBA for Office!!!1
Did you hear? They took it away in favour of Applescript (which was silly). When is it coming back? In article <9fc6a418-478e-4b67-b029-d7120ce4410e@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, > Did you hear? > > They took it away in favour of Applescript (which was silly). When is > it coming back? The next major release. Years from now. They listen to their customers. Sort of. Would have been better, of course, if they had listened two years ago when their customers told them that dropping VBA was going to be a bad idea.  Signature"Harry?" Ron's voice was a mere whisper. "Do you smell something ... burning?" - Harry Potter and the Odor of the Phoenix Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> schrieb: > In article > <9fc6a418-478e-4b67-b029-d7120ce4410e@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > years ago when their customers told them that dropping VBA was going to > be a bad idea. Bringing it back in the way it was working before is also a bad idea. We are on intel now. If you need this stuff, the better choice is to use Parallels or BootCamp. With intel it might be easier to port VBA so that it will work better. From the design, VBA has a deep integration with the Windows-OS and every new Mac-OS version has to overcome this lack of system integration. I guess that it will never be as good as the original, so that the people will continue using Parallels. Florian >Did you hear? > >They took it away in favour of Applescript (which was silly). When is >it coming back? Yes, I did hear. I expect I will buy it. When I bought my Mac, I looked at Office, but figured most of my spreadsheets would be broken anyway - they use Visual Basic. So I went Apple instead. But I don't want one spreadsheet or word document at home and another one pretty similar at work - I want them to be identical and synchronized both places. So far, all I've used iWork for is to read my documents from work. Whenever I open one, it tells me that it couldn't get everything and asks if I want to save the changed document. No, I don't want two different documents, I want to synchronize documents so that I am always updating the latest. I wasted my money with iWork when I need the same document at work. > >Did you hear? > > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > I wasted my money with iWork when I need the same document at work. In that case, you should get a copy of the previous Office 2004 to tide you over for the two or three year wait. VBA in Office 2004 is not bug for bug compatible with the latest Office 2007 VBA on the dark side, not least because Office 2004 isn't either, but it does approximate a usable subset for most users. In one respect iWork is useful. Pages does a competent job of translating .docx files back to .doc for your Office 2004, which doesn't. Now that I'm retired enough not to worry about Windows using clients, I have dumped Office for iWork, keeping my old Office 2004 lying about just in case. I keep my copy of Office 2008 neatly shrinkwrapped on a high shelf in the hope that a service pack will elevate it to usability. In most respects iWork is Office 2008 done right. (aka dumbed down but elegant enough) I'm using InDesign CS3 and LaTeX for professional work, of which i do little lately. SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 >> I wasted my money with iWork when I need the same document at work. > >In that case, you should get a copy of the previous Office 2004 to tide >you over for the two or three year wait. ... >Now that I'm retired enough not to worry about Windows using clients, I >have dumped Office for iWork, keeping my old Office 2004 lying about >just in case. I keep my copy of Office 2008 neatly shrinkwrapped on a >high shelf in the hope that a service pack will elevate it to >usability. Actually, that might be what happens to me, depending on how long it takes for the next Office to come out. I do have Office 2003 in Parallels, but that's a pain, especially since I haven't yet installed it on my clean parallels, nor have I yet synchronized the documents. Also, I'm not using Time Machine to back up my regular VM file (just the backups I create occasionally). Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> schrieb: > Actually, that might be what happens to me, depending on how long it > takes for the next Office to come out. I do have Office 2003 in > Parallels, but that's a pain, especially since I haven't yet installed > it on my clean parallels, nor have I yet synchronized the documents. > Also, I'm not using Time Machine to back up my regular VM file (just > the backups I create occasionally). I use ntbackup to create full and differential backup files on a network share. I only backup "My Documents" this way. That is done in some minutes. From there you can use TimeMachine or any other backup system. Additional, I have made a copy of the original Parallels system disk. Florian >I use ntbackup to create full and differential backup files on a network >share. I only backup "My Documents" this way. That is done in some >minutes. From there you can use TimeMachine or any other backup system. >Additional, I have made a copy of the original Parallels system disk. How and where do you get this backup out to where TimeMachine finds it? (I never used it and am Googling it now) Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> schrieb: >>I use ntbackup to create full and differential backup files on a network >>share. I only backup "My Documents" this way. That is done in some [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > How and where do you get this backup out to where TimeMachine finds > it? (I never used it and am Googling it now) I guess I don't understand your question. I have a folder win-backup on my osx-home folder. I did connect my home folder to parallels. It is available in parallels under "Parallels Shared Folders" and also under "Network Places". In my win-backup folder I have created my weekly backup-files. I have one file, "Freitag.bkf" that is a full backup from "My Documents" in parallels. Monday.bkf, Thursday.bkf,e.t.c are differential backups. The files are replaced once a week. Florian |
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