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Richard C. Long writes
>
> I dislike the way add-ins are handled in Excel 4.0. The add-ins Manager
> stores the full path of an add-in module, and complains if there is a
> single quote (') or a bang (!) in the path. Well, of course my disk is
> called "Rich's Disk" and Excel didn't like that.

This prompts me to comment on an experience I had with add-ins in Excel 3.0.
When I installed 3.0, my hard disk was named Novy's HD.  I had to remove the
quote later because an auto-HD backup app that we use didn't like quotes. 
Well, this caused a problem when I started using the Solver add-in later!  It
seems that Excel kept the HD's old name, so it couldn't find the Solver add-in
file, which sits somewhere within the System Folder.  I was fortunate to
remember the HD name change and suspect that it was the source of the trouble. 
Re-installing the add-ins solved the problem.

I really like Excel, but I have one more gripe.  I started writing macros a
couple of weeks ago, and I think the documentation is short on detail of how to
do it (to put it kindly).  One thing that confuses me to this day is when a
variable is a reference and when it is simply text.  I'll catch on to it
sometime.

Bob Novy
ra_novy@dal.mobil.com
Dallas, TX

No profundity today.