You can create data entry forms without VB in Excel too. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Ted Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wasn't suggesting that the validation requires VB. > > Creating forms and handling form events does (unless MS has introduced new > utilities to hide all that since last I used it). > > Some of the most interesting things I have seen done with Excel did involve > VB, and there are better tools to do most of those things. > > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Ted Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There are tradeoffs no matter what route you take. >>> You can do validation in Access as you can in Excel, but Excel is not >>> designed to manage data where Access is, and both are crippled by their >>> dependance on VB (a seriouusly broken language: fine for scripting MS >> >> Excel can do validation without VB. For example, you can restrict >> data to a certain range of dates, limit choices by using a list, or >> make sure that only positive whole numbers are entered all without >> any VB. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Staging-area-for-data-before-read-into-R-tp20075962p20099445.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
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