Re: Why no delayed trigger on newer DSOs?

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quite frankly I haven't met any office workers so far that have used VBA.

OK, I admit I actually only know one. :-) Everyone else I know who uses VBA
either does have a software or electronics (but not necessarily with
programming included) background.

Heck, they didn't even know it existed or what it is. For a long time I
didn't either.

That's why I often say that OpenOffice suffices for perhaps 90% of MS Office
users -- until quite recently there was nothing like VBA available with OO...
although probably more people simply don't find OO stable, don't like the
"look and feel," etc. (I seem to recall you were in the camp of not finding
it stable.)

There's a huge amount of "programmability" in Windows that few people ever
take advantage of. Almost all contemporary "heavyweight" programs (such as
CorelDraw, Microwave Office, Visio, MathCAD, even the desktop itself, etc.)
can be remotely controlled via COM, using nothing more than an Excel
spread*** if you feel like it.

---Joel


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