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VBA is less limited than people like the believe. When I was bored in one college lesson I was playing around with calling Win32 APIs inside a Word 97 macro. I
by laumars 9y ago
VBA is less limited than people like the believe. When I was bored in one college lesson I was playing around with calling Win32 APIs inside a Word 97 macro. I was able to call winsock and write a simple chat application.
- Mister_Snuggles 9y agoVBA is actually a pretty amazing language. Even without diving into the Win32 APIs, there is an absolutely amazing amount of stuff that gets exposed via COM and, as a result, is easily accessible from VBA. Of course, the biggest downside to all this power is that people actually used it. This is how you end up with businesses that live and die by gigantic and virtually impenetrable Excel workbooks.