[tombert]

I don't own a Windows computer, but I've seen some incredibly interesting stuff come out of the VBA for Excel, which I sadly never have had a chance to learn.

Does anyone here have a side-by-side comparison of the LibreOffice BASIC vs the VBA?

[stan_rogers]

The main difference will be the object models for the various applications. LibreOffice's object model was designed around the expected scripting/automation language - Java. That means that the object model, especially the properties and methods of those objects, is written in a very Java-accented way that would normally feel like foreign vocabulary mixed into a Visual Basic-based dialect. If you're used to that, then the way objects work in VBA (or the very similar Lotusscript) might feel a little bit weird at first, then make more sense than the LibreOffice objects/properties/methods. (Similarly, writing Java against a COM- or OLE-oriented API object model feels awkward, even if you can do all of the same things that you could do with VBA.)