May be you look should to using OpenOffice which does not use VBA.
Then you would not be so revolted by this useful this MS product.

NickHK

"kramer31" wrote in message
ups.com...

visual basic script (VBS) works well in Office...

It works well enough, but the syntax is completely revolting ... and it
you don't gain any power for the disgusting syntax.

Perl is much more powerful and what would be wrong with offering
multiple scripting languages.