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On 1/1/2025 2:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 16:45:04 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
> 
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:25:01 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd bet a decent python script would do it in minutes, with a tiny
>>>> footprint and be reliable.
>>>
>>> Even Microsoft realizes that now.
>>
>> I presume you're referring to excel now including a python interpreter.
>> I don't think it's much of an improvement.
> 
> Obviously Microsoft is expecting its users to think otherwise. And it
> wants to charge them for the privilege, so it must be expecting them to
> believe it’s an improvement worth paying extra money for.
> 
> So either Python is that much better than VBA, or VBA is that much worse
> than Python. Take your pick. ;)


I figured you were lying about MS (your mouth was moving).  Python in 
Excel costs NOTHING.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/python-in-excel#pricing-plans