GS wrote:
GS wrote:
I recently was given an ancient beast of a laptop with Office 95
installed. I'm looking into using that as my main "on the road"
machine, but there are some difficulties, and I hope someone here
remembers enough about this 19-year-old version to answer.
1) In my main .xlsm workbook, I have a *lot* of things going on in
Workbook_BeforeSave and Workbook_SheetChange. Is there anything
equivalent in 95?
2) Any "gotchas" I need to be aware of, especially opening &
saving a 95-formatted workbook in Excel 2007 or 2010? (I already
know that Excel removes all VBA when converting to 95 format.)
Sorry but.., this just begs me to ask why not install a newer
version?
Believe me, I would *LOVE* to install something newer. Even 97 would
be better than this... but the CD-ROM drive is broken, the machine
is so old it doesn't have USB, I don't own a serial or parallel
CD-ROM drive, I can't get the NIC to work, and I don't have a floppy
version of Office newer than 4.something for Win3.x. ;-) (I doubt
the disks are even good, anyway. They've been sitting in a box for
something like 15 years now, and probably hadn't been used for a few
years before that.)
Wow! Glad it's not me wrestling with this!!<g
What can I say? I like a challenge. ;-)
FWIW, I had an issue where my MSO2007 disc wouldn't work anymore and so
I bought an e-version I downloaded (for $100 I think), that came with
the 3 standard validations. Would something like this work for you?
http://appscustomerscare.com/browse/...-and-business/
Hmm... no, I don't think so. Remember, no network access. If I install
anything, it needs to be on floppies. Sigh.
Honestly, if I didn't use the hell out of my macros, this wouldn't be
that big of a deal. And really, if it comes down to it, I can do
without the macros, it'll just make more work for me at the end of
the day.
It might be a waste of time if the machine doesn't have the resource
power for your level of usage.
For what I use it for I think it would be just fine. Most of what I do is
simple data entry; the macros just automate large parts of it for me. For
example, when entering city names, rather than having to type everything, I
just enter 1 and a macro changes it to Phoenix, 2-Glendale, 3-Peoria, etc.
Like I said, not strictly necessary, but damn are they useful.
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