The Ghost in the Spreadsheet
Bargaining: He searched for a workaround. There were sketchy forums. “Copy the ‘VBA7’ folder from Microsoft Office,” one user wrote. Another said, “Just install the ‘wps_vba_package.exe’ from a third-party mirror.” Arjun shuddered. He wasn’t about to infect a client’s machine with malware from a Russian forum.
He sat back, sweating. Then he realized: he didn’t need new sheets. He could just overwrite a hidden “buffer” sheet. He added a line in his Node.js script to pre-populate a template sheet with blank structures. The JS macro would just copy from the buffer.