I am the accountant for an insurance agency evaluating Office 2007 Small
Business Trial Version for upgrading our workstations. Our agency accounting
software has some old customized Excel macros that have worked seamlessly
with our Office 2000 Small Business installations. They now will not work
with Office 2007 as it has a "missing component". The Office Online Knowledge
Base informs me that a VBA Converter Pack must be installed and to do so I
must contact support. Why is this VBA Converter Pack not already readily
available for download? Why must I spend $49 on customer support just to be
told how I can get it? Why is Office 2007 Small Business less functional, or
not fully downward compatible, to the Office 2000 version?
I do not understand why Microsoft chooses not to give easily obtained and
free support on their trial versions. I certainly see no reason to upgrade
when the trail version is already letting me know that it will not work.
I am finding this whole exercise very frustrating.
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Regards,
I agree with you. I have a regular (ie non-trial) version of Office 2007 and
can't use a boatload of spreadsheets because of the missing "VBA Converter
Pack". It's not available for download. This is completely ridiculous.
"Ray" wrote:
> I am the accountant for an insurance agency evaluating Office 2007 Small
> Business Trial Version for upgrading our workstations. Our agency accounting
> software has some old customized Excel macros that have worked seamlessly
> with our Office 2000 Small Business installations. They now will not work
> with Office 2007 as it has a "missing component". The Office Online Knowledge
> Base informs me that a VBA Converter Pack must be installed and to do so I
> must contact support. Why is this VBA Converter Pack not already readily
> available for download? Why must I spend $49 on customer support just to be
> told how I can get it? Why is Office 2007 Small Business less functional, or
> not fully downward compatible, to the Office 2000 version?
>
> I do not understand why Microsoft chooses not to give easily obtained and
> free support on their trial versions. I certainly see no reason to upgrade
> when the trail version is already letting me know that it will not work.
>
> I am finding this whole exercise very frustrating.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ray
What to do: if you have the chance to have access to the older version Excel
2003, VBA converter is already included, so you can do what you need to do,
and then back to version 2007.
It is a shame that version 2007 is less featured than older one!
Good luck.
"Ian" wrote:
> I agree with you. I have a regular (ie non-trial) version of Office 2007 and
> can't use a boatload of spreadsheets because of the missing "VBA Converter
> Pack". It's not available for download. This is completely ridiculous.
>
> "Ray" wrote:
>
> > I am the accountant for an insurance agency evaluating Office 2007 Small
> > Business Trial Version for upgrading our workstations. Our agency accounting
> > software has some old customized Excel macros that have worked seamlessly
> > with our Office 2000 Small Business installations. They now will not work
> > with Office 2007 as it has a "missing component". The Office Online Knowledge
> > Base informs me that a VBA Converter Pack must be installed and to do so I
> > must contact support. Why is this VBA Converter Pack not already readily
> > available for download? Why must I spend $49 on customer support just to be
> > told how I can get it? Why is Office 2007 Small Business less functional, or
> > not fully downward compatible, to the Office 2000 version?
> >
> > I do not understand why Microsoft chooses not to give easily obtained and
> > free support on their trial versions. I certainly see no reason to upgrade
> > when the trail version is already letting me know that it will not work.
> >
> > I am finding this whole exercise very frustrating.
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ray
The VBA converter pack add-on, if it's the one I recall, is fairly dated and probably not extensively tested with Excel 2007. It
may be available from a prior version (or it could be a new version available through Product Support) but you may want to use the
link below to also post in the MS Excel discussion group on this. There may be other solutions. The converter pack may not actually
do what you would think from its name, but the folks in the Excel group would be more knowledgeable.
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<<"JC" <JC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:158F1BFF-21D6-457C-B1D4-3947F1F32193@microsoft.com...
I agree with both of you. It is ridiculous.
What to do: if you have the chance to have access to the older version Excel
2003, VBA converter is already included, so you can do what you need to do,
and then back to version 2007.
It is a shame that version 2007 is less featured than older one!
Good luck. >>
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Please let us know if this has helped,
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
>>*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends<<
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