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CWins48117yOh good old vba. The language that is meant to be so user-friendly and at the same time is so technically inconsequential i can't imagine how average users can use it without pain.
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CWins48117yMy VBA experience happened some months aho, never used it before or after.
My gf, who is a team manager at a big company had an excel file with macros that some other guy once did. She wanted to slightly change it and add a little.
Since she never did a line of code we decided that i would analyze, comment and expand the script and explain to her when it's done. As an outsider i should not see, nor work on that.
What the other guy did only work by coincidence and because vba allows unholy stuff.
So i had to rewrite and i expand it to the new functionality and encounteted some freaking strange behavior that it just required advanced knowledge how stuff works or might work. SO helped a lot, but non-devs would not know the right questions.
The end result is a monstrosity and no one in the world would believe she did it by herself.
What bugs me the most: i didn't succeed in making the solution elegant. :-(
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