Macro-Based Spreadsheets
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 1:44 pm
Hi!
Up until now - as you may know - I've been posting a series of revisions of a budgeting worksheet, Moneystar, which runs under As-Easy-AS for DOS. (If, by the way, you've downloaded any in the past, please be aware of the *latest*, improved, corrected version, posted under my previous topic within the last week or so!) Anyone familiar with the DOS version of As-Easy-As will know that its automated functions are programmed as macros into the spreadsheet cells themselves, rather than as Visual Basic code.
The history of my own use of the As-Easy-As macro language is that I learned it when I first began programming the spreadsheet to run a household budget in the early 1990s and, although I've been attempting recently to learn VB in order to produce a modernised budget program for Windows, it's an uphill task for a 60-year-old with as little free time as I have these days. So, although it may be a heretical thing to post on a Trius forum, I'm wondering if anyone knows of another macro-based spreadsheet already in existence which runs under Windows? (I believe the Windows version of As-Easy-As is VB-based, like Excel.)
Cheers,
Charlie Moran
Up until now - as you may know - I've been posting a series of revisions of a budgeting worksheet, Moneystar, which runs under As-Easy-AS for DOS. (If, by the way, you've downloaded any in the past, please be aware of the *latest*, improved, corrected version, posted under my previous topic within the last week or so!) Anyone familiar with the DOS version of As-Easy-As will know that its automated functions are programmed as macros into the spreadsheet cells themselves, rather than as Visual Basic code.
The history of my own use of the As-Easy-As macro language is that I learned it when I first began programming the spreadsheet to run a household budget in the early 1990s and, although I've been attempting recently to learn VB in order to produce a modernised budget program for Windows, it's an uphill task for a 60-year-old with as little free time as I have these days. So, although it may be a heretical thing to post on a Trius forum, I'm wondering if anyone knows of another macro-based spreadsheet already in existence which runs under Windows? (I believe the Windows version of As-Easy-As is VB-based, like Excel.)
Cheers,
Charlie Moran