Good Guy wrote:
On 16/04/2018 06:46, Robert Baer wrote:


1. Every version of Excel is different, and Excel 2003 has some useful
and
needed methods, not available elsewhere.

you are a complete idiot who knows nothing about excel. Modern Excel
packages can do everything what old excel used to do and better!!
* It is YOU that is ignorant.
Excel 2003 supports ActivePrinter = "Acrobat PDFWriter on FILE:"
And Excel 2010 barfs.

Also, copied directly from WORKING Excel 2003 code into Excel 2010:
'In "modern" defective Excel apps, following prints to default printer
'as a file AND prompts file name; file in printer format, NOT PDF format
ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut Copies:=1, Preview:=False, _
ActivePrinter:="Acrobat PDFWriter on FILE:", PrintToFile:=True, _
Collate:=False, PrToFilename:=pPath + vNam

* In Excel 2003 i can put the code in a loop and print a PDF to a file
each time, each PDF having a different pattern that can be used at a
workstation.

* So, here are TWO exceptions to your "can do everything" ignorance.



2., Online? Where i have ZERO control, ZERO portability, and ZERO
security?
Clouds tend to rain...and blow away.

There you go; Confirmation of your mental imbalance! I said quite
clearly what online version is about.


3 The so-called "Telephone method" cannot work as the phone number was
disconnected a few years ago.

You must be living in Taliban caves in remote part of Afghanistan. Have
you heard of Skype? It can do free phones to Microsoft Help Line and
activation servers.
* To a DISCONNECTED line?
Here is a phone number from someone that called me: 1(503)261-1531
Have fun.


Frankly, you should really be using something else because pirates are
not able to use Microsoft products these days because of advanced
technology Microsoft is using.