Windows 10 and Office Excel

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This is post https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge50#post12769
https://excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2408-Windows-10-and-Office-Excel/page50#post12769

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Pulling my Plonkies 5+

Bollox, it would be easier to start again from scratch

I have come to a bit of a turning point. Mostly because just now I don’t yet have infinite time available.
- I got a lot more I want to do this winter.

Intro. Why am I writing my own script / developing
I would not have got this far, or no where near as quickly without Chris’s stuff. I remain very grateful to him.
But its got to the point that his chaotic organising and lack of him having time currently to do justice to the replies, and suggestions that he gets, coupled with the failings of GitHub and YouTube, ( In particular it being almost impossible to comment on YouTube without it being deleted since last July https://support.google.com/youtube/t...comments?hl=en
GitHub is deigned I think to mess up a project, by not only losing all control, but actively messing up all version control. GitHub is the Devil ) … All this means that at the end of the day, its going to be a lot quicker for me to start again from scratch myself.
His script is full of errors, redundant code and other failings and getting that info across to him has improved to be impossible.
But he is still a great guy, and I love him!

But I gotta move on….
I think this post I am writing in will turn into a table of contents for the next posts

GUI Redesign Post https://excelfox.com/forum/showthrea...ge50#post12770
I quite like the GUI idea. It’s convenient. But it’s aimed not to entertain but instead be practical. It is. Its square with simple square labelled button in it. It just need a few simple code lines, a few code lines are needed just once, some others are either in
_ a loop
Or
_ repeated.

Chris likes to use Posh GUI software to make and control developing/ adding to his GUI. I expect that is due to some reasons such as it looks nice in a YouTube video and other reasons I don’t know.
But its like swatting a fly with a nuclear missile. It makes a code I expect by recording what you do, just like the VBA macro recorder, you then get a lot of stuff repeated, which then a programmer would reduce into more efficient looping coding or make a function to do similar things in the same coding.
Personally I don’t mind the extended inefficient text, as text is cheap and it makes it easier later to do mods on a particular button later.
But I am going to do some looping to do the repeated stuff to get the buttons there,
mostly because
_ I want to reduce the code lines, so that I have room to add my new coding but keep some of Chris’s stuff approximately where it is, even if I then #comment it out, as I would like to still follow later what Chris is doing.
_ Its gonna help me “migrate” from modifying and rearing Chris’s script to having a completely new one of my own