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by martin 5689 days ago
I was looking into this a while back, and I'm curious: does anybody know whether it's even possible to develop a sophisticated add-in for Mac Office? MS added VBA support back to Mac Office 2011, but VBA can only do so much. On Windows, sophisticated Office plug-ins are typically COM add-ins, which can be implemented in C++ or .NET and thus can pretty much do anything you want. Those are obviously not cross-platform, though. I believe Mac Office also supports AppleScript, but it's not clear to me whether that's any more powerful than VBA.