Future of VBA

[Michael Armstrong]

Bill mentioned in his book that Microsoft is talking about removing VBA. Is there any news on this? Thank you

 

[XL-Dennis]

Hi Anne

It does no longer affect me as I have ported myself to...

Guess which of the following:

1. VB.NET
2. Borland Delphi
3. Visual Lynux

All the very best to You

 

[Anne Troy]

I can't. I can't guess!!!!

ROFL!!!

Hello, darling!!

 

[XL-Dennis]

Anne,

Another good friend to me work at Borland who recently gave me an opportunity to start with Borland Delphi

But I support the demand on MSFT to maintain VB-support.

Take care my friend

 

[Anne Troy]

I hope so. Heck, I can't even learn VBA; how the heck would I ever learn all that new-fangled stuff!!

 

[XL-Dennis]

Anne,

Don't worry as that's what friends are for

TTYL,

 

[NateO]

Re: so ironic

Hello,

Ironically I came to this forum to ask this very question. I come with a bit more information then what has already been shared here, information that concerns me.
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I seriously doubt they would take out VBA out of Office (maybe even ever) because its so helpful for small things as well as large projects. But it looks like for serious soultions MS wants to move things away from VBA
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You can count on Access 12 shipping with VBA, and probably 13 as well: Link

After that, not sure, but that's some time off... And why Excel would be much different is beyond me.

 

[mdmilner]

So a question - I realize it's possible to have dual installations of different Office versions on the same PC. What's the status between, say, O2K & O-XP?

Mike

 

[Anne Troy]

What do you mean "status"? I'm running 4 versions on the same PC. 97 through 2003

 

[Jack in the UK]

What do you mean "status"? I'm running 4 versions on the same PC. 97 through 2003

A lot of money for software when really only Excel 97 and Xp or 2003 are needed for all but the mosyt extream VBA solutions -

jiuk

 

[mdmilner]

Dreamboat,

That answers the question - I only recalled that A97/A2K could definately co-exist. I didn't make the assumption that more would be fine - and I don't have any other versions to simply try it out myself, yet.

My employer is about to move to OfficeXP in the next couple months. I'm just trying to find out how much, if any, of my code is going to break.

Mike