Sunday, March 23, 2008

Ms Office 2008 For Mac: Rooting Out The Old


Microsoft clearly took this opportunity to root out crusty programming.In Excel 2008, A lot of other small annoyances seem to have disappeared, too, alongside a modest speed bump on Intel systems.The only disruptive change in 2008 is the removal of a programming language common between the Windows and Mac versions of Office: Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Among its simpler purposes, VBA was used to write macros that could format documents automatically or insert complicated elements. The use of AppleScript as a replacement isn't a reasonable transition for power users or those who need it for cross-platform use.

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