Hi P D,
Do not despair. I too was once in your position, or one very similar. I used
to use Lotus 1-23 and was quite adroit with the macro language, writing many
applications with it. When my employer at the time started to switch to
Office, I was not impressed. I thought PowerPoint was far inferior to
Freehand, Excel was good but Lotus was better, and Excel macros were non to
my taste. But things moved on and Office it was, so I got to use Excel quite
a bit, and even got to like it. But I still did not like the macro language,
even though I did use it. And then along came VBA ... Well that was a whole
new ball-game. I started to use it, and got to really appreciate the power
and flexibility of the language. It isn't Lotus macros, but in many ways,
that is a good thing. Remember your programming disciplines (design, logical
thinking, test, re-test, structure et al), but throw the rest away, and
revel in the learning opportunity, it's what stops us going senile. Gord has
given you lots of good advice on how to get started, follow that up and
enjoy it.
Best of luck.
Bob