Visual Basic has been included in every version of Excel since it first
appeared with Excel 5. There are options not to install it and to disable
it when it is installed but neither of these is on by default. So I don't
know why you didn't have or at least thought not...

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Jim
"JessJ" wrote in message
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| Hi,
| I'm one of the people for whom Office 2003, SP2 would not install, but I
| read the newsgroup and downloaded, and successfully installed, the
| recommended file (full version). I do not have the Professional version
of
| office (nor visual basic), but since the sp2 update, there seems to be a
| visual basic in Excel! Is this merely because that full version of sp2
| over-updated me, or is VB really now included in the product?
|
| jessj
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| Jess
| (XP Home SP/2 OEM. HDD1:Windows NTFS 280GB; Fat32 1GB; Linux 19GB.
| HDD2: NTFS 80GB. HDD3: NTFS 40GB. P4 HT. 512MB)
| [Please note: Display name changed from Jess. I want to be unique!]
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