PROJECT: I am building a model configurator/quotation builer program for our sales company. A collection of UserForms are used to manipulate an Excel spreadsheet which is then printed as a pdf quotation.

CURRENT ISSUE: I have been reading through your thread histories on creating executables, but I’ve realized I don’t have the premium VB y’all seem to have. So my question is – what version do I need to purchase, and should it be VB 6 or VB.NET? Will the next Microsoft release of Office include the “basic” VB6 version or the “basic” VB.NET version? I suppose I might get a different answer if I posted this under the VB.NET forum, but I figured I could trust you guys not to lead me astray...

Also, what beginner's resources do you recommend that OVERVIEWS the major concepts in VB. I do OK at figuring very specific things out, but I usually have the feeling I'm taking the wrong big picture approach.

VISUAL BASIC VERSION: VB 6.3 (Retail 6.4.9972). This is the VB that came with Office 2003/Windows XP/Dell PC.