[AccessD] : Re: Demise of VBA

On 7/13/06, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
> On 13 Jul 2006 at 16:38, Susan Harkins wrote:
>
> > I found the switch from Excel Basic to VBA difficult. Now, Access Basic and
> > VBA were like peas in a pod, but Excel? I never have gotten the hang of
> > using VBA in Excel and I've pretty much stopped trying.
>
> ISTM that Visual Basic for Applications in Word and Excel are overkill.

I don't think so. If it weren't for VBA in Word and Excel, I wouldn't
be here. I wouldn't ahve had the confidence to tackle a DB if I didn't
have the experience writing code in Word and Excel first.

> There is a fundamental difference between Access and Word/Excel.
>
> Word is a tool  for creating documents and  Excel is a tool for creating
> spreadsheets.  A document or a spreadsheet are useful objects in their own
> right and Word and Excel are *end user* tools for creating them.
>
> A database has no value without an application to utilise it's contents.

True, but that application doesn't have to be Access, it can be Word
or Excel or VB or any app that can get data from the Jet engine.

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