Ah, OK. That is new since I used Excel last. Thanks
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >> > ______________________________________________ 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.
