Hi all,
I have already posted this thread on the "Excel Questions" board but am sure it is relevant to this board too. I would really like to hear what people have to say about this.
I have spent the last couple of years becoming familiar with (and quite attached to) MS Excel but a couple of things have happened recently:
1. On a training course for another piece of software, the trainer told us that one of the major banks was planning to eliminate MS Excel from its systems entirely within two years.
Does anyone know who this is? Whether it is true?
Basically, he went as far as blaming Worldcom on excel (which I can't say I agree with being an accountant).
2. Re. VBA, apparently MS are planning to dump the xls format and transfer everything to xml format. From what I have heard, this means that any macros we write will have to be in Java (don't have a clue) and that you will not need MS Excel to read or create these files.
Can anyone enlighten me or further elaborate? Is this true? What are the implications for all of us? Is all the excel stuff we learned about to become useless?
I have already posted this thread on the "Excel Questions" board but am sure it is relevant to this board too. I would really like to hear what people have to say about this.
I have spent the last couple of years becoming familiar with (and quite attached to) MS Excel but a couple of things have happened recently:
1. On a training course for another piece of software, the trainer told us that one of the major banks was planning to eliminate MS Excel from its systems entirely within two years.
Does anyone know who this is? Whether it is true?
Basically, he went as far as blaming Worldcom on excel (which I can't say I agree with being an accountant).
2. Re. VBA, apparently MS are planning to dump the xls format and transfer everything to xml format. From what I have heard, this means that any macros we write will have to be in Java (don't have a clue) and that you will not need MS Excel to read or create these files.
Can anyone enlighten me or further elaborate? Is this true? What are the implications for all of us? Is all the excel stuff we learned about to become useless?
