Thanks Jan for asking. I have built a calendar for him in which he, as
secretary of a large charitable organisation, enters many and varied meeting
dates. It opens at today's date and has many buttons to simplify his use
including a toggle to show/hide unoccupied dates. It has been the most used
and valuable item on his computer for about 4 years since failing eyesight
lead to his retirement without any computer skills at all.
Many of the varied meetings are entered by means of one of a series of
colour coordinated buttons, each of which call a macro to enter the meeting
and make the fill and font colours distinctive and so the different types of
meeting are readily seen. Occasionally he enters a non-standard meeting and
so there is a button which toggles true/false the font and fill pallets for
easy use.
It is not a great problem for him to change the colours but going to the
menu but I should like to have reinstated this feature.
Now that 2008 does not support VBA I can no longer write macros on the large
Mac screen without Parallels or similar running 2003 - I shall wait for 2011
or whatever/whenever, trusting that VBA is resurrected. and for now stick
with 2003 on this tiny mini laptop screen. As for my friend I shall have to
customise the bloated menus of 2007 so he has maximum screen for his minimal
vision - font and fill colors are buttons I would have missed out.
I am grateful for your interest.
Camlad
