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Excel 4.0 Macro (XLM) Users - Your help is needed
The Excel product team is gathering data on how people are using the Excel 4.0 macro language at the present time. If you or someone you know continues to use the Excel 4.0 macro language in current versions of Excel, we would appreciate it if you send a response for these questions to : 1.. How often do you use Excel workbooks that contain Excel 4.0 Macro sheets? 2.. When was the last time the Excel 4.0 macro was modified in any way? 3.. Have you considered migrating the Excel 4.0 macro to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)? 4.. What, if anything, is preventing the Excel 4.0 macro from being migrated? Thank you for your participation, Eric Patterson Program Manager Microsoft Excel |
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Excel 4.0 Macro (XLM) Users - Your help is needed
Eric Patterson (MS) ha scritto: The Excel product team is gathering data on how people are using the Excel 4.0 macro language at the present time. If you or someone you know continues to use the Excel 4.0 macro language in current versions of Excel, we would appreciate it if you send a response for these questions to : 1.. How often do you use Excel workbooks that contain Excel 4.0 Macro sheets? 2.. When was the last time the Excel 4.0 macro was modified in any way? 3.. Have you considered migrating the Excel 4.0 macro to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)? 4.. What, if anything, is preventing the Excel 4.0 macro from being migrated? Thank you for your participation, Eric Patterson Program Manager Microsoft Excel |
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Excel 4.0 Macro (XLM) Users - Your help is needed
Sounds like you getting ready to make another "improvement" to Excel. I use XL4 to count printable pages and to modify Headers and Footers. The migration was from VBA to XL4 as VBA cannot count printable pages and VBA can bog down using PageSetUp. The two languages are a team and should not be separated. cc to -- Jim Cone San Francisco, USA http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware "Eric Patterson (MS)" wrote in message The Excel product team is gathering data on how people are using the Excel 4.0 macro language at the present time. If you or someone you know continues to use the Excel 4.0 macro language in current versions of Excel, we would appreciate it if you send a response for these questions to : 1.. How often do you use Excel workbooks that contain Excel 4.0 Macro sheets? 2.. When was the last time the Excel 4.0 macro was modified in any way? 3.. Have you considered migrating the Excel 4.0 macro to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)? 4.. What, if anything, is preventing the Excel 4.0 macro from being migrated? Thank you for your participation, Eric Patterson Program Manager Microsoft Excel |
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Excel 4.0 Macro (XLM) Users - Your help is needed
Sorry for the late reply to this thread (new to this n.g.).
I agree with Jim wrt to the complementary nature of the two languages. I have a legacy program written in XLM4 macros that was written back in the early '90's. It has grown to over 4000 lines of code (plus custom menu, alert and dialog box definitions). In fact, I wrote my own HTML/CSS code generator in XLM4 to bypass the built-in Excel web page generator (for the obvious reasons :-)). To Microsoft's credit, they have maintained forward (albeit unsupported) compatibility for XLM4 in Excel releases on both the Mac and Windows platforms. I've gotten used to the reality that getting any help/work-arounds (let alone bug fixes) is virtually non-existent except from public sources. There's no real motivation to convert it as the program does what I want it to do quite well. Even with a translator that would convert the bulk of the code to VBA, it is highly unlikely that I would undertake the effort. The debugging time alone would be prohibitive. My vote is to leave the capability in for XLM4 macros. Also cc'd to Regards, Art On 12/8/06 4:08 PM, Jim Cone wrote: Sounds like you getting ready to make another "improvement" to Excel. I use XL4 to count printable pages and to modify Headers and Footers. The migration was from VBA to XL4 as VBA cannot count printable pages and VBA can bog down using PageSetUp. The two languages are a team and should not be separated. cc to |
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