"Chris" wrote

| None of the applications listed above can deal with Microsoft VBA so I
| have no choice.
|
| Oh the beauty of lock-in.

To be fair, I wouldn't call that lock-in. They promote lock-in
with their proprietary format, their incompatibility between
versions, and their aggressive pushing of MSO to college
students. Those factors have made MSO one of Microsoft's
very few successes. Essentially they're in the business of
monopoly, not software or services. But VBA is a brilliant
addition, and no one has to use it. The people who do are
generally people who do much of their job with MSO.