[dba-Tech] Alternatives to MS Office

[Peter Brawley]

On 2/5/2018 13:37, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> I promise that I shall look into it. That could become a hobby for the 
> next year or two. I know one or two things about VBA and have written 
> tons of code in that language.

And https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros suggests that porting MS 
Office macros to LibreOffice would involve porting from V BA to Python.

PB

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> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Peter Brawley 
> <peter.brawley at earthlink.net <mailto:peter.brawley at earthlink.net>> wrote:
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>     On 2/4/2018 7:40, Arthur Fuller wrote:
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>         So the question arises, why doesn't somebody write a VBA for
>         Linux? Way
>         beyond my skill set, but some of you people are way smarter
>         than I, so...?
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>     Good question, Basic is an execrable language but reams of
>     Windows/VBA code are there to be ported, why isn't anyone doing it?
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>     PB
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> Arthur
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