Comments by Peter Abbasi

Peter Abbasi 3-Dec-23 21:36pm View

Wow. Thanks, Andre. This was more than I was hoping for, and definitely more than I was expecting. Guidelines or not, seems like you've given me a great starting point with a thoughtfully written response. It is much appreciated.

Peter Abbasi 3-Dec-23 21:31pm View

That just means more opportunity to learn, right? :) I get the message though. It is definitely something to consider before committing to anything, and the fair warning is appreciated.

Peter Abbasi 1-Dec-23 20:07pm View

Thanks Maciej Los - and you are not wrong. It is a valid solution, but not everyone is able to write C#, nor is every individual in the office work setting willing to invest the time or effort into learning it. In fact, I personally know dozens of people who have full libraries of VBA macros they use to automate tasks, and they never even learned Visual Basic. Some people are just set in their ways. I could see a use case for an app like this (not that my intention is to commercialize it) but for the sake of argument, there are plenty of individuals who would rather be able to just plug in their own saved macros (of which they have a full collection) and run them that way, as well as organize, save and view them.

Your solution did bring an important point to my attention also. It was never my intention to limit my question to C#. In my first draft, my exact wording was actually "C# (or any language for that matter including C++, VB.NET, or any of the other languages that is not unusual for Windows to support)." Unfortunately, I was multi-tasking, and erased that portion of the question by mistake.

Peter Abbasi 1-Dec-23 15:12pm View

Understood and thanks again!

Peter Abbasi 1-Dec-23 12:23pm View

Thanks again. I'll check them both out to be safe :)

Peter Abbasi 1-Dec-23 12:21pm View

Thank you for providing the link. I will definitely take a look! As far as needing to classify them, I am not sure if this is what you mean by classification: but essentially the app would be installed locally on the same machine as the instance of Office, the macros would be the conventional kind of document review/formatting/find and replace kind of macros you'd find in both excel and word add-in templates. Nothing crazy - the most complicated macro would likely ask for user input (a search term and replace term for find/replace). I imagine there would be two lists in the GUI, one for macros that are found in and called from excel, and the other found in and called from word. Is that the kind of classification you are talking about?

Peter Abbasi 1-Dec-23 12:14pm View

Thanks for the suggestion, Richard.

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