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</description></item><item><title>Still no assurance on VBA in office ?</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/archive/2008/01/16/the-reports-of-vba-s-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated.aspx#7145154</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:24:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7145154</guid><dc:creator>@ Head</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Despite all the talk about VBA and whether or not it will be in the next version of office, is the message&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: The Reports of VBA's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/archive/2008/01/16/the-reports-of-vba-s-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated.aspx#7148712</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:04:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7148712</guid><dc:creator>Jon Peltier</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Who wrote this article? The author is given as &amp;quot;vsto2&amp;quot;, and that profile is remarkably uninformative.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;... the next generation of the Microsoft Office system will definitely contain all of the functionality that developers and power users expect from VBA.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does this mean it will in fact contain VBA? or just &amp;quot;all of the functionality&amp;quot;? Will our existing VBA code run as well as Office 2003 VBA ran on Office 2007 (allowing the usual amount of OM and Syntax changes)?&lt;/p&gt;
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