Thanks. The boss just nixed the OO idea, though: she says its user base is too small so it will probably "go away."
I hope not. The world needs things like OO, even if it can't do the particular task I need. Thanks again! K On 10/23/05 12:52 PM, "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
