Yesterday I added a bunch of my own macros to a document. They were working with the document as I expected. I saved the document and shut down for the evening.
This morning I re-opened the document, only to find all the macros gone (#NAME everywhere). I had to re-implement them. Along the way I noticed, in the BASIC window, that there is a button to "Save" -- incredulously, this comes midway through the toolbar, after "Compile", "Run", a bunch of editing tools, then "Save BASIC" (which prompts you to save to an external file) and then finally the universal New/Open/Save buttons. If you close this window, no message prompts you to save the contents, but the changes are "apparently" saved as the changes continue to be in effect while the document is open. But even if you save the document, and then close it, you will not receive a warning that the macros have not been saved, and the program will close silently. Surely this behavior is not the intended way of doing things. It is a huge gotcha that has the potential to waste many hours of work. If saving the document is not enough to save the macros, then there should be a prompt to save the macros as well, either when closing the macro window or the main document. If the user is expected to save manually, there needs to be much greater emphasis placed on the Save function -- it should not be the 15th button on the toolbar. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
