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Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:32:52 -0500
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On 1/1/2025 7:43 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
> 
>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:54:08 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for that great link.  I haven't written any meaningful VBA code
>>> in years, but it helps make MS Office the only office software worth
>>> considering if you need custom applications.
>>
>> Nobody has written meaningful VBA code in years.
> 
> Not that anyone needs this, but...
> 
>      https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/BASIC_Guide


I've been itching for the better part of 20 years for a cola-based MS 
Office detractor to do some significant LO/Basic coding so it could be 
compared to my Office/VBA.  In all that time, nobody has stepped up. 
The closest was Feeb who wrote 20 lines of LO Basic sloppy-slop 8.5 
years ago.

MS Office remains LibreOffice's master, decade after decade