Lotus vs Excell 6

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Don't want to start a Chevy vs Ford thing here so I guess this is for former Lotus 123 users who have gone over to Excel.

My question is, Other than "everybody uses Excel", is there a compelling reason to for me to switch to Excel?

I've got 10+ years of structural spreadsheets in Lotus that do seem to translate over, except of course, the macros don't run. I left Basic years ago for spreadsheets and now Excel would force me back. I need someone to tell me if it's really "the way to go", or not.

old Ca SE

 

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Is there a way to get Excel to run a macro written as text in a cell or range of cells? It would be a great help with modular programing.