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Old Sep 24, 2009 | 5:54 am
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mikel51
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Originally Posted by boberonicus
I am a Mac fanboy but I have to call foul on this one. The Office 2008 suite does not support Visual Basic, and thus any homemade macros that automate functions or process data won't work in 2008. This has been a keen source of frustration for me; seems like it's something Microsoft is doing just to prevent compatibility for power users and custom apps and keep the score a bit higher on the XP/Vista side.
agree with this....I run vmware fusion for two reasons: quicken and to use several exel sheets that have macros...the macros are in visual basic and don't run on Mac Office 2008--some of my friends stuck with older versions of mac office so that they could use the visual basic macros.
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