On 25/02/2013 10:01 AM, scott wrote:
>> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers/excel/excel.pdf
>>
>
> Shame.

Indeed.

> Actually IME I find a lot of people are able to write VBA macros,
> yet they purposely go to huge lengths to use only "native" Excel just to
> avoid the dreaded "this sheet has macros" warning when opened. In fact
> it turned into a bit of a competition at my old place; "I challenge you
> to implement this in Excel without a macro". It's surprising how
> versatile it is without VBA.

Well, that's true of anything.

I used to think shell scripts were just for invoking binary files in a 
certain order. But that's because I was writing MS-DOS shell scripts. If 
you write your scripts with Bash, it's quite frightening how much stuff 
you can do - all in a non-interactive, untyped, unchecked environment 
where almost anything can go wrong. Frightening stuff indeed! o_O

I'm sure I've quipped at some point that *I* have computing 

Excel spreadsheets laced with VBA code. And she has no computer training 
at all!

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