Hi Ed,
The Mac community should expect that we'll deliver VBA in the next major
release of Office, as announced.
I saw that Neil Ticktin wrote an article for MacTech Magazine that might
be
useful to you in helping you determine what you need with respect to VBA
and
Office versions.
Here is a link to the article:
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.07/OfficeScriptingAdvisor/
Todd Aton
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Cor****ation
Microsoft makes no warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the
information in this post.
On 5/14/08 1:04 AM, in article
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"Ed"
<edvolchok@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 13, 3:02 pm, Pat McMillan <patmc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As many of you may have noticed, today we announced the release of
Office
>> 2008 SP1 (as well as an update to Office 2004). Both downloads are
available
>> on the Mactopia site:
>>
>> Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.2 Update (KB
>>
952332)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=99F54471-CCF.
>> ..
>> A882-A05ECD128ADC
>>
>> Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (12.1.0) (KB
>>
952331)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=395D1487-A3A.
>> ..
>> A0F8-4D6E1D6D89D2
>>
>> We're hoping to make both downloads available via Microsoft AutoUpdate
soon.
>> We've addressed a very large number of issues in Excel in the 2008
update
>> (many of which came to our attention via this newsgroup), so we hope
you
>> will install the update and let us know how it works for you. We will
be
>> continuing to monitor this forum to watch for feedback, so please keep
it
>> coming.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> --
>> Pat McMillan
>> Macintosh Business Unit
>> Microsoft Corp.
>> This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
> Thanks, Pat. A more stable Excel is great. But, I really need Virtual
> Basic for Applications pronto. Given the announcement that MS will
> reinstate VBA in the next version of Excel, does that mean I'll have
> to use Excel 2004 until the next version of Office (Office 2011 or
> 2012!)? Or, will the Mac BU delight the Mac community by restoring
> this critical application in 2008 SP2?
>
> Ed
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