"Which version of VBA should the OS provide?"
The latest
"Do an analysis of the VBA versions associated with each of the Office applications,
and extract a list of the functions that you think the OS version of VBA should
have."
a) see above. b) assumes Office is the primary application of scientists,
technicians & engineers - it isn't. c) confuses functionality found in Office (see
b) with scientists, technicians and engineers requirements of O/S
"Do an analysis of WSH, VBS, JS, and the access to the related programmable objects
provided by the OS or freely downloadable."
a) Yet another programming environment to learn - scientists, technicians and
engineers aren't programmers. Once we've learnt something like VBA we don't want to
have to learn even more programming. b) Are they scripts languages easy to use and
de-bug, if so where are their Visual Editors ? c) We don't want to download anymore
dodgy progs that is necessary.
"Do an analysis of PowerShell."
a) That's a bit more like it, but why isn't it included with the installation disks?
b) Is it as easy to use as a VBE ?
My time is money for my employer and I don't have time to do all of this analysis
that you expect. I have a suspicion that if it was really wonderful it would be easy
to explain and all of the stuff you've mentioned would almost be self explanatory.
But you are right when you say I don't know about all of the goodies that come with
Windows O/S, this is primarily because they're not apparent, obvious and intuitive.
This is probably an area that Microsoft falls down badly, giving good simple
explanations of what else the O/S will do together with some installed samples.
I would be very interested in these scripts and scripting environments if it is
possible to easily add buttons and RMB menu items etc. I would be even more
interested if there was a readily available Visual Editor and De-Bugger that was
included with Windows Explorer as VBA is included with applications, including those
other than Office.
--
Duncan
"Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and proving by
fabricated insanity that nothing could be as mad as what passes for ordinary
living."
(Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002)
www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs
"Paul Randall" <paulr901@cableone.net> wrote in message
news:uZBv6SS2HHA.6072@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi, Duncan
> I think you don't know about all the goodies provided with the OS.
> Which version of VBA should the OS provide?
>
> 1. Do an analysis of the VBA versions associated with each of the Office
> applications, and extract a list of the functions that you think the OS version of
> VBA should have.
> 2. Do an analysis of WSH, VBS, JS, and the access to the related programmable
> objects provided by the OS or freely downloadable.
> 3. Do an analysis of PowerShell.
> 4. Give us a list of functions found in item 1 that are not provided by 2 and 3.
>
> -Paul Randall
>
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