Hi Benjamin,
Benjamin Huot wrote:
Does OpenOffice.org come with VBA support by deafault?
No, it doesn't.
I am asking
because future versions of NeoOffice on the Mac (which is based on
OpenOffice.org) and OpenOffice.org on Suse have VBA enabled.
Well, the Novell version of OOo has support for 60-80% of Excel-macro's.
In all cases, there is a warning when macro's are loaded. Users are
asked to allow loading them. If you don't know the source and/or trust
the macro's, don't start them.
Problems come when macro's can execute without user permission. But
there are no known possibilities to do so in OpenOffice.org.
I am not
willing to open up my data due to viruses. And since Microsoft Office
2007 on the Mac is not going to have VBA support, I would have to
recommend people who use Macs use Microsoft Office rather than
NeoOffice, because they are safer from viruses that way. The sounds
counter inuitive, but if VBA is included with OpenOffice.org, there is a
tremendous potential for viruses and many people will likely switch to
another suite instead, me included.
I've heard many people giving other reasons to leave the Ms-Suite on the
Mac. Portablibilty of documents, to mention one. But that has nothing to
do with your original question.
I hope my answer helps.
Regards,
Cor
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