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VBA Will Return To Mac Office

Posted by kdawson on from the end-of-a-crack-the-whip-chain dept.

An anonymous reader sends a pointer to Erik Schwiebert's blog — he's the design lead of Microsoft's Mac Business Unit — where he announces that Visual Basic will be returning to Mac Office. Not in Office 2008, which started shipping earlier this year. We discussed the announced death of VBA in Mac Office 17 months back. Schwiebert says that the interval to the next version of Mac Office will be shorter than 4 years but isn't able to offer any more detail. The blog post calls for feedback on what features of VBA and Windows interoperability are most important to people.

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  1. NeoOffice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...already has support for it.

  2. Re:Why change? I'll wait for Office 2010. by e4g4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I find that Office 2004 is quite a bit faster than Office 2008 Seconded! I'm still completely baffled by the fact that Word 2008 takes almost a full minute to load on my brand new MacBook - while Word 2004 (running in rosetta) clocks in at about 15 seconds.
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  3. Re:Why change? I'll wait for Office 2010. by karmic_penguin · · Score: 3, Informative

    In Word go to Word > Preferences
    Click on "General"
    uncheck "WYSIWYG font and style menus"
    uncheck "Show Project Gallery At Startup"
    Restart Word

    Office 2008 starts in ~4 seconds on my MacBook. I could care less about VBA, although I suppose if someone ever sent me something with VBA in it I could get NeoOffice. I got a cheap academic license through my university.