Hello Jim,
I doubt he can receive mail at that address, but he can download the file
from

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;143466

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Jim Rech" wrote in message
...
I don't know a thing about the Mac versions of Excel so I have no idea
what
that timeline is.

I haven't actually read a Excel VBA teaching book in many years. I always
thought there were no better books than John Walkenbach's though. His
"Dummies" book may be just the ticket<g:

http://www.j-walk.com/ss/books/index.htm

When you hit a hurdle though you shouldn't hesitate to ask here for help.

I've send the help file to you at . I
wasn't sure whether you could actually receive a file there so let me know
if it doesn't come though (via email).

--
Jim
"Martin" wrote in message
...
| Many thanks for the encouraging thought about the timeline (I assume it
is
| the same for MacOS).
|
| Thanks also for your encouraging comments. I have in facvt bought two
books
| about VBA but in both cases I seem to have bought books that assume a
| knowledge that I don't have. Is there an introductory book that you are
| comfortable recommending.
|
| My computer cannot find the file XLMACR8.HLP so I would appreciate if
you
| could email it to me.
|
| "Jim Rech" wrote:
|
| You have at least through Excel 12 on the Windows side for XLM
support.
MS
| has not committed beyond that and in fact I believe they've indicated
that
| is the end. So the good news is that you probably have until your
customers
| switch to Excel 13, perhaps 2009 or 2010 at the earliest.
|
| The bad news is that no one ever wrote a book on going from XLM to
VBA,
but
| it's really not that bad. Like many other developers 10 or so years
ago
I
| had to go from Excel 4 macros to VBA and it wasn't all that difficult.
Once
| you get over the initial hurdles you'll find it really is far superior
to
| XLM. My very first impression was that VB was very wordy compared to
XLM.
| While that is true it often takes less code to do something in VB,
| incongruous as that may seem. One reason is that you do not have to
select
| an object/sheet/range, etc to operate on it. And having a separate
| coding/debugging environment in the VBE is a huge plus.
|
| There was a Help file included in Excel 5 or 95 that has a section on
XLM
| and VBA equivalents. I found this very useful in my transition. It's
name
| is XLMACR8.HLP. If you want a copy left me know.
|
| Another thing in your favor is that there are a lot of good books on
Excel
| VBA out there and, although they do not discuss transitioning from
XLM,
they
| do a good job of introducing you to VB and getting you started (and
more).
|
| --
| Jim
| "Martin" wrote in message
| ...
| |I wonder if anyone can recommend resources (books and or etc.) that
will
| help
| | me make the transition from the XML Macro language to Excel's visual
| basic. I
| | consider myself a very competent writer of XML Macros but at Office
2003
| and
| | Mac OSX Tiger I'm beginning to worry how much longer I can expect my
| Macros
| | to run.
|
|
|