[dba-Tech] Alternatives to MS Office

[Bryan Carbonnell]

The only place VBA and Macros are different is in Access. Word, Excel
and even Powerpoint macros are all VBA code.

In Access Macros are a totally different animal from VBA.

B

On 5 February 2018 at 13:57, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
> Somebody along this thread has confused VBA with macros. They are a tad
> compatible but at the end of the day radically different. VBA is a language
> that can combine Word, Excel and Access (also PowerPoint, but I don't work
> in that) into an app that can do wondrous things. To cite just one example,
> I wrote an app for Franklin Templeton that a) imported about 100
> spreadsheets per month-end, grabbed their significant results, created a
> ~100 sheet workbook from said results, exported those results into an
> Access database for safekeeping, and piped those results into a Word
> template-document, which was in turn sent to ~500 key players in a dozen
> cities. Total execution time was ~5 minutes.
>
> I'm not bragging about my skills. Any competent VBA developer could have
> done the same, in more or less hours than I billed. This is intended as a
> statement about the power of VBA; if and when LibreOffice or OpenOffice
> reaches this level, I will happily jump ship and go there. But we are a
> very long way from that.
>
> A.
>
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ------
>>
>>
>>> A.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Peter Brawley <
>>> peter.brawley at earthlink.net <mailto:peter.brawley at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 2/4/2018 7:40, Arthur Fuller wrote:
>>>
>>>         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...?
>>>
>>>
>>>     Good question, Basic is an execrable language but reams of
>>>     Windows/VBA code are there to be ported, why isn't anyone doing it?
>>>
>>>     PB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Arthur
>>>
>>>
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