[ale] A Real Sad Loss for Open Source in the Atlanta Area

[William Bagwell]

On Thursday 14 October 2010, Scott Castaline wrote:
> I agree. My wife is a state employee and she sends me all of her word
> docs and excel sheets and I haven't had problems with them in OOo. I
> even do her travel expense reports for her on my desktop. The only
> issues I've had is that when they send a new updated template that is
> supposedly changed (by a "Power User") how it does things, it never
> fails to come through as broken and I wind up having to redo all of the
> formulas and macros changed so that it'll do things the way the powers
> to be want it done. It never works right on her laptop (M$ XP), so it's
> not in the translation process that it breaks.

By "macros" do you mean VBA script macros? Or the 'record all these 
laborious manual steps' macros? If the former, how are you running them 
with out totally re-writing them in OOo basic first?

I had zero luck a few years ago trying to run a few scripts in OOo I had 
previously written on a Borg box. Or even open up the old code to try to 
start re-writting it...
-- 
William