>Which is why I'm perfectly happy working with a development product that hasn't had a major update in nearly a decade.
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>One of the things that worries me going forward is that I see less and less opportunity for developers to be experts in anything. I've been doing Fox for a quarter of a century. I know it broadly and deeply. If I change my development product every couple of years, how would I ever get to that kind of deep knowledge, or to that breadth of knowledge? And if I didn't, would my work product be anywhere near as good?
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>I started to reply, but first want to ask something. You, Della Martin, and Ted Roche penned an outstanding book on Office Automation with VFP. Have any of you published any updates (or even built any updates for your private use) to the library of code that targeted the Office 2000 environment at the time, to reflect newer functionality in Office? (I don't have the book in front of me but I believe it covered up to Office 2000)

We talked at one time about updating the book, but it didn't make economic sense to do so. I've written a few articles covering stuff that wasn't in the book, and did a conference session a few years back that included talking about issues around more recent versions of Office. You'll find the articles at http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/publications/articles, and the white paper for the session at http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Conference%20Sessions/Office%20Automation%20Tips%20Tricks%20and%20Traps.pdf

Tamar