Re: [libreoffice-users] When will LO have MS macro and function support?

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Apparently there is a problem using MS Office macros in different versions of MS Office itself. So a macro 'written' for MS Office 2007 might not work very well in MS Office 2010 or 2013. Let alone going backwards to try using the macro on an earlier version of MS Office!! So moving from

Re: [libreoffice-users] When will LO have MS macro and function support?

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yeh, the upgrade to 3.4.0 supposedly dealt with 1 security issue and i think there have been 1 or 2 upgrades since then that we were urged to do as a matter of some urgency for similar reasons. That makes about 2-4 in about 4 years. I'm not sure if macros featured in any besides the 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] When will LO have MS macro and function support?

2015-02-10 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/15 14:47, Tom Davies wrote: I've never heard of OpenOffice or LibreOffice macros being used as an attack vector At least one proof-of-concept extension was released. At least one document with an included proof-of-concept macro was

Re: [libreoffice-users] When will LO have MS macro and function support?

2015-02-09 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/15 18:44, Thisis theone wrote: When will LibreOffice have 100% MS macro and function support? Given that LibO currently has support for half a dozen programming languages that can be used to write extensions, I doubt it will ever be

Re: [libreoffice-users] When will LO have MS macro and function support?

2015-02-09 Thread Udvarias Ur
On 15-02-09 01:44 PM, Thisis theone wrote: Hello, if we open up an example MS excel file, the macros and functions are not 100% working in LibreOffice. When will LibreOffice have 100% MS macro and function support? I hope LO *never** *has MS macro capability! That is how a great many

[libreoffice-users] When will LO have MS macro and function support?

2015-02-09 Thread Thisis theone
Hello, if we open up an example MS excel file, the macros and functions are not 100% working in LibreOffice. When will LibreOffice have 100% MS macro and function support? Or this is something that it's not worth it to do in LibreOffice? IMHO if LibreOffice would have 100% MS compability for

Re: [libreoffice-users] When will LO have MS macro and function support?

2015-02-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/09/2015 01:44 PM, Thisis theone wrote: Hello, if we open up an example MS excel file, the macros and functions are not 100% working in LibreOffice. When will LibreOffice have 100% MS macro and function support? Or this is something that it's not worth it to do in LibreOffice? IMHO if

Re: [libreoffice-users] When will LO have MS macro and function support?

2015-02-09 Thread Florian Reisinger
Hi, I guess 100% is impossible Liebe Grüße / Yours, Florian Reisinger Am 09.02.2015 um 19:44 schrieb Thisis theone thisistheone8...@gmail.com: Hello, if we open up an example MS excel file, the macros and functions are not 100% working in LibreOffice. When will LibreOffice have