You couldn’t, for example, use AppleScript to change Excel’s menu structure, to manage a data-input form, or to change spreadsheet values on the fly-all things you could easily do with VBA. But AppleScript couldn’t really replace the functionality of VBA. And if the sheet you were looking at included VBA macros, they wouldn’t run.Įxcel 2008’s macro window: sadly, empty.“But what about AppleScript,” you ask? Sure, Excel 2008 supported OS X’s built-in scripting language. But it wouldn’t show you anything written with VBA. Sure, that menu might show you some really old macros, the ones written in the Excel 4.0 macro language. It seemed to exist for no other reason than to annoy those of us who used and relied on Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros.
This time it’ll work-really, it will.”īut selecting Tools -> Macros in Excel 2008 ( ) would only remind me, once again, that the Macros menu was but a mere shell of its former Excel 2004 self. “Go ahead,” it would whisper, “You know you want to. For years, Excel 2008 has been teasing me: Every time I launched the app, I’d see that menu item, mocking me, tempting me to click.
