VBA is almost universally the wrong tool for the job. MS-Office applications are COM servers, so you can interface with them from almost any programming languag

VBA is almost universally the wrong tool for the job. MS-Office applications are COM servers, so you can interface with them from almost any programming language and throw useful frameworks into the mix such as Qt or wxWidgets. The sort of things that make a programmers life easier, in stark contrast to the abomination called VBA.