On 18/06/2008 21:39, DDowney wrote:
Hi
I got one of those quick, time wasting games by email today which was
embedded in an Excel spreadsheet. I could open it in work, where I
have MS Excel, but when I emailed it to myself at home, where I have
OOo 2.4, it wont open in Calc. Can anyone suggest what the problem
might be, and how I can fix it? I think the game might be written in
Visual Basic, from my brief internet research, so might that be a
problem?
Thanks
Dermot
The fundamental problem is that OpenOffice's Basic is very different
from VBA which is what Excel macros are written in. You have a number of
possibilities (short of installing Excel on your home computer). In no
particular order:
1. Free On-line VBA to OpenOffice Basic:
http://www.business-spreadsheets.com/vba2oo.asp (may or may not work)
2. Purchase StarOffice from Sun. This is the commercial version of
OpenOffice and has a number of advanced features including VBA support :
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp
3. Get Novell's version of OpenOffice.org which has VBA support:
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=SfgHRzyafeg~
4. Get a friend/colleague/consultant to convert the VBA to OpenOffice Basic
5. Learn OpenOffice Basic (and VBA???) and convert the macros yourself.
6. ???
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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