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Can I use Visual Basic applications with Pocket Excel? Can you tell me
how, if it's possible? I've made some macros, but the buttons won't
appear when I open the document with Pocket Excel.

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Paavo Räisänen wrote:
> Can I use Visual Basic applications with Pocket Excel? Can you tell me
> how, if it's possible? I've made some macros, but the buttons won't
> appear when I open the document with Pocket Excel.

you can't do that. Excel Express would have been a better name.

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Paavo Räisänen <pjr84@jippii.fi> wrote:

>Can I use Visual Basic applications with Pocket Excel? Can you tell me
>how, if it's possible? I've made some macros, but the buttons won't
>appear when I open the document with Pocket Excel.

No. Pocket Excel doesn't understand forms, buttons or any VBA code.
totally ignores it when you load a spreadsheet with that information.
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"Paavo Räisänen" <pjr84@jippii.fi> wrote in message
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> Can I use Visual Basic applications with Pocket Excel? Can you tell me
> how, if it's possible? I've made some macros, but the buttons won't
> appear when I open the document with Pocket Excel.
>

Pocket Excel is rather basic. Y ou might want to check out Planmaker:

http://www.softmaker.de/pmp_en.htm

While we're on this subject of the baby-steps software that MS puts into
PPCs, twenty years ago I had a word-processor on my old Apple II+, with its
massive 64k of RAM (no hard disk), that could do footnotes (it was called
ScreenWtriter), something way beyond the capabilities of Pocket Word,
running in RAM that is 1000 times larger. This kind of stripped-down
software might have been necessary on the very first machines, but surely
it's time that MS provided PPC users with a proper word-processor (or,
failing that, MSWord at the very least)?

Peter Groves

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Pocket Excel & Pocket Word are slimed down versions of Office Excel &
Office Word and do not include VBA.

Paavo Räisänen wrote:
> Can I use Visual Basic applications with Pocket Excel? Can you tell me
> how, if it's possible? I've made some macros, but the buttons won't
> appear when I open the document with Pocket Excel.
>

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Well that would be just to plain simple and easy wouldn't it?

Peter Groves wrote:
> "Paavo Räisänen" <pjr84@jippii.fi> wrote in message
> news%23WnuzNbFHA.616@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>
>>Can I use Visual Basic applications with Pocket Excel? Can you tell me
>>how, if it's possible? I've made some macros, but the buttons won't
>>appear when I open the document with Pocket Excel.
>>
>
>
> Pocket Excel is rather basic. Y ou might want to check out Planmaker:
>
> http://www.softmaker.de/pmp_en.htm
>
> While we're on this subject of the baby-steps software that MS puts into
> PPCs, twenty years ago I had a word-processor on my old Apple II+, with its
> massive 64k of RAM (no hard disk), that could do footnotes (it was called
> ScreenWtriter), something way beyond the capabilities of Pocket Word,
> running in RAM that is 1000 times larger. This kind of stripped-down
> software might have been necessary on the very first machines, but surely
> it's time that MS provided PPC users with a proper word-processor (or,
> failing that, MSWord at the very least)?
>
> Peter Groves
>
>

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Ed,

Somewhat Off Topic here but thought you may know....

Given all the changes to Mobile Word and Mobile Excel in WM5.0, do you know
if the VBA and forms support has improved? I've not found anything out
there to suggest yes or no.

Thanks,

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Senior Editor / Owner
Clinton Fitch (Dot) Com!
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"Ed Hansberry, MS-MVP/Mobile Devices"
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> Paavo Räisänen <pjr84@jippii.fi> wrote:
>
>>Can I use Visual Basic applications with Pocket Excel? Can you tell me
>>how, if it's possible? I've made some macros, but the buttons won't
>>appear when I open the document with Pocket Excel.
>
> No. Pocket Excel doesn't understand forms, buttons or any VBA code.
> totally ignores it when you load a spreadsheet with that information.
> --
> __________________________________________________________________________________
> Ed Hansberry (Please do *NOT* email me. Post here for the benefit of all)
> What is on my Pocket PC? http://www.ehansberry.com/
> Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices www.pocketpc.com
> What is an MVP? - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

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"Clinton Fitch, Clinton Fitch \(Dot\) Com!"
<management@NOSPAMMINGME.clintonfitch.com> wrote:

>Ed,
>
>Somewhat Off Topic here but thought you may know....
>
>Given all the changes to Mobile Word and Mobile Excel in WM5.0, do you know
>if the VBA and forms support has improved? I've not found anything out
>there to suggest yes or no.

I suspect having VBA and associated items (forms, buttons) isn't a big
issue with PDAs. MS is more concerened about data integrity and
formatting, which is what 99.9% of Excel spreadsheets have. I doubt
they are even *considering* something like Pivot Table support, much
less the enourmous VBA engine.
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Thanks Ed for the insight and thoughts.

Regards,

--
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Senior Editor / Owner
Clinton Fitch (Dot) Com!
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"Ed Hansberry, MS-MVP/Mobile Devices"
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> "Clinton Fitch, Clinton Fitch \(Dot\) Com!"
> <management@NOSPAMMINGME.clintonfitch.com> wrote:
>
>>Ed,
>>
>>Somewhat Off Topic here but thought you may know....
>>
>>Given all the changes to Mobile Word and Mobile Excel in WM5.0, do you
>>know
>>if the VBA and forms support has improved? I've not found anything out
>>there to suggest yes or no.
>
> I suspect having VBA and associated items (forms, buttons) isn't a big
> issue with PDAs. MS is more concerened about data integrity and
> formatting, which is what 99.9% of Excel spreadsheets have. I doubt
> they are even *considering* something like Pivot Table support, much
> less the enourmous VBA engine.
> --
> __________________________________________________________________________________
> Ed Hansberry (Please do *NOT* email me. Post here for the benefit of all)
> What is on my Pocket PC? http://www.ehansberry.com/
> Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices www.pocketpc.com
> What is an MVP? - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

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Peter Groves wrote:

> While we're on this subject of the baby-steps software that MS puts into
> PPCs, twenty years ago I had a word-processor on my old Apple II+, with its
> massive 64k of RAM (no hard disk), that could do footnotes (it was called
> ScreenWtriter), something way beyond the capabilities of Pocket Word,
> running in RAM that is 1000 times larger. This kind of stripped-down
> software might have been necessary on the very first machines, but surely
> it's time that MS provided PPC users with a proper word-processor (or,
> failing that, MSWord at the very least)?

I agree, using the name "Word" must be against some sort of trades
descriptions act here in the UK, as it does not resemble anything close
to what most consumers know as Microsoft Word.
Why not just call it "Pocket Word Pad" - a Windows Application that has
many more similarities than the funnly blown Microsoft Word, of which a
spell checker is the only thing they share apart from the icon.

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David C. Holley wrote:
> Pocket Excel & Pocket Word are slimed down versions of Office Excel &
> Office Word and do not include VBA.

Slimmed down implies someone looked at the source code of Microsoft Word
and just commented out a few minor things. In fact, they started from
scratch and for reasons of time and money (perhaps - I can only guess)
didn't include barely anything - no tables, images or numbered bullets.

If you have Word 2003 you can convert your files manually and as if by
magic Pocket Word will display the images - but if you use Active Sync
it won't.

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Marc wrote:
> Peter Groves wrote:
>
>> While we're on this subject of the baby-steps software that MS puts into
>> PPCs, twenty years ago I had a word-processor on my old Apple II+,
>> with its
>> massive 64k of RAM (no hard disk), that could do footnotes (it was called
>> ScreenWtriter), something way beyond the capabilities of Pocket Word,
>> running in RAM that is 1000 times larger. This kind of stripped-down
>> software might have been necessary on the very first machines, but surely
>> it's time that MS provided PPC users with a proper word-processor (or,
>> failing that, MSWord at the very least)?
>
>
> I agree, using the name "Word" must be against some sort of trades
> descriptions act here in the UK, as it does not resemble anything close
> to what most consumers know as Microsoft Word.
> Why not just call it "Pocket Word Pad" - a Windows Application that has
> many more similarities than the funnly blown Microsoft Word, of which a
> spell checker is the only thing they share apart from the icon.
>
Even my old Psion could set a couple of different fonts, apply Bold and
Underline ....

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Marc wrote:
> the >> funnly << blown Microsoft Word, of which a
> spell checker is the only thing

How ironic, could have done with using the damn thing before pressing send !


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