Thanks folks,

I did some digging here in the office (pardon the pun), and it turns out
that a machine we had issues with last year; on which I thought we had bought
Office Basic, had actually come with Microsoft Works!!!

So I think we'll be going for a few versions of Office Basic.

Thanks again for your replies,
Paul.

"Jan Karel Pieterse" wrote:

Hi Paul,

So if I bought a standalone version of Excel 2003, would it contain the same
VBA functionality as the Excel that comes with Office 2003?

Sure. But I doubt if buying just Excel will prove much cheaper then e.g. the
students and teacher's edition of Office...

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP
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