It all depends what your ultimate aim is.
My impression from what you posted there is that you are best of to stick to
VB6.

RBS


"Dave" wrote in message
...
From my first post on this group this morning I was impressed by the
quality and professional responses I received. I feel the knowledge is
here to get a good handle on this, a question on Visual Basic Versions and
what direction I should take. Some background is in order.

As an old IBM 360 o/s BAL programmer, and also a EXCP channel programmer
dealing with interrupt routines, my first experience with BASIC was on DEC
PDP 11/40 & 11/70 RSTS time sharing systems. I really liked what you
could do with the DEC BASIC and wrote a number of programs and developed
video support macros for the application programmers. Later in life, on
Windows based PC's, I got somewhat into writing a few M/S Word and Excel
macros. I really enjoyed Excel macros and wrote some fairly complex ones,
however, I never spent enough time to become really good at it. When
Excel moved from their macros to VBA I did a little conversion but not
much.

One day I decided to spend money and bought M/S VB 4.0 and the manuals.
Wrote a couple of small test programs but not as much as I would have
liked to do. Then came along VB 6.0 SP6 Professional Edition which I
purchased. Again not much time to spend and before I knew it VB 2008
Express Edition was available which I installed.

As you may imagine I have a few VB versions and manuals. I also have
Office 2007, so considering Word & Excel support of VB, plus what is
available at present what should I be moving towards? I'm wondering if I
should rat hole everything except VB 2008 Express? How does this relate
to Visual Studio? Small Basic? I hope to spend more time on VB and would
like to be able to grow in VB capability in Word, Excel, and stand alone
VB applications I may write.

Hopeful someone can clear this up for me. Thanks in advance.

Dave