Credits due though RP, jazzy not least of all, the forum.

yeah,
However, Win10 release is just around the corner, I'm sensing though, many PC desktops running XP may not work.

ya see, if ya have IE6, and Excel VBA, it won't do certain stuff.
TAB insist must have minimum IE8 for Excel to work.
So the goal post may be changed yet again, but this time I got over the line before they changed. Point is, no matter what the change is this time round, the project I hope can adapt without too much hassle with the upgrade from XP to whatever.
Linux has come a long way to, this WINE, (I think) Distro can run Office, just skim reading here and there.
All this stuff, technical is a hinderence to the end game and that is to calculate a wiining bet before the race starts and have the bet sent, the "edge to the edge" is a hands free method. Not that I'm lazy, other things need to get done to.
I never ever in my wildest punting journey have I fathomed one has to be somewhat as savvy with all this stuff as I and many others on the punt have arrived to, and it keeps evolving at times to utter nonsense for one, intricately profitable for another.
( One man's junk and another man's treasure principle).
Or,
A school of Champion Poker players playing in a Grand Final.
They surely once weren't tree loggers who one day decided to go to the paper mill with a whole tree to make paper so it be printed to a deck of cards, then build a casino !?
Surely not.
They have an edge, they have a tool to play that edge, a deck of cards.
Same with racing software, it's an edge to play the edge. It seems though one has to make and stack their own cards.
Butterflies and quantum physics ? That gust of wind before your winning horse gets it, and loses by a nose, blame the butterfly ?