Linux.com: OpenOffice.org Calc Adds Support for Excel VBA | Linux Today

Linux.com: OpenOffice.org Calc Adds Support for Excel VBA

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 20, 2006

“As an Excel user, you may have looked at OpenOffice.org and
found that it doesn’t support Visual Basic for Applications (VBA),
the Microsoft Office macro language. If you’ve spent years building
hundreds of Excel macros, the fear of losing them all could keep
you locked in to Office. If so, it’s time to look again; Novell has
taken OpenOffice.org’s source code and create a version of its own
that supports Excel VBA.

“Novell’s Noel Power is the developer in charge of introducing
Excel VBA interoperability into OpenOffice.org Calc…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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