On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 12:19 -0400, K Hindall wrote:
> After a week of teaching myself how to create user forms in Visual Basic for
> Micro$oft Excel, I have discovered that two basic features--tabbing through
> text boxes and pasting into text boxes--are not supported on the Macintosh.
> My employer is an all-Mac house.
> 
> I am tired of using a software package that is just a high-priced
> advertisement for the developer's platform, but I don't think OpenOffice or
> NeoOffice will work for me.  What I need to be able to do is create a user
> input form to put data into a spreadsheet.  The form must be usable in both
> English-language and Japanese-language Mac OSX environments.  Japanese text
> must be supported (90% of the data going into the form and on the sheet is
> Japanese text).  As far as I can tell neither OpenOffice nor NeoOffice meets
> all the requirements.  I don't expect to get NeoOffice help here, but it
> would be nice if someone could tell me if I am correct about OpenOffice not
> fitting the bill.
> 

You may have to wait a short while for OOo2.0 for MacOSX but it does
support Xforms which will allow you to do what you want. Please review
Chapter 12 of
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf 

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