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To: FatherofFive

We used to have a saying around the office, “Excel is not a programming language”. It came about because a few folks in the office, that were pretty good with Excel, would compare their Excel abilities to the work of the software developers that created the software for the equipment we sold or proprietary software used internally for inventory control, warranty tracking and other purposes. Then one day the IT guy sent around an Excel workbook that was actually the game Pac Man recreated using VBA in Excel. Even though Excel isn’t a programming language, it took all the fun out of saying it…


16 posted on 12/13/2011 5:02:16 PM PST by Usually_Disappointed (I think the tree of liberty is getting thirsty...)
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To: Usually_Disappointed
Then one day the IT guy sent around an Excel workbook that was actually the game Pac Man recreated using VBA in Excel.

I'd like to see that.

19 posted on 12/13/2011 5:14:29 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (To Obama, bipartisanship is giving the opposition the opportunity to do as they are told. (WGensert))
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