>First of all, what is Office 12 ?

The next version of Office, which is now in beta. See the link below for
more info.

A Look at Office 12
pubs.logicalexpressions.com/.../LPMArticle.asp

>Second of all, if VB.Net is to generate web-content material and
Office12[ VBA & XML] can also generate web-content material; why bother with
VB.Net.

HA! That's a loaded Question!<g>

But the truth is that .NET is supposedly more efficient for the web and
there are a bazillion solutions that don't require Office and doesn't work
with XML...so you need something "more" and VB.NET along with ASP.NET are
supposed to be the solution for many issues.

But there's always more ways to do the same thing. So use what you want,
some will be harder to code but more efficient...and some will be easier to
code, but less efficient. I'm sure there are better ways to do things I do
now...but I don't know what they are, so I use what works.