The problem was the client. “We’ve migrated to WPS Office,” the email from Mrs. Chakrabarti, the client’s IT head, had read. “Your solution must run on WPS Spreadsheets.”
The Ghost in the Spreadsheet
Arjun’s mouth went dry. “It means… the VBA engine is missing. WPS doesn’t come with it by default. You need to install the VBA plugin.” wps vba support library not installed
At hour 23, he ran the final test. He double-clicked the WPS file. The splash screen—recreated as a modal dialog using JS’s MsgBox equivalent—popped up. “Loading Dashboard…” The problem was the client
The file opened. The splash screen—a neat little userform he’d designed—did not appear. Instead, a single, stark dialog box materialized: “Your solution must run on WPS Spreadsheets
Arjun didn’t sleep. He became a machine.
He closed the file without saving it. Then he opened a new text file and wrote a short note to himself: