Comments on: Frank Kabel

By: Casey Wilkins

Casey Wilkins — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:34:00 +0000

As a frequent visitor to the Excel forum. I witnessed and copied Frank’s incredibly generous answers to questions asked by those of us new to the VBA experience. His answers, oftentimes lengthy and containing valuable well written code, were always spot on and contained an aire of the kindly professor. His generous nature on the forum no doubt, was part and parcel of his personal life and likely enriched the lives of those fortunate enough to know him personally. I did not. But I share in perhaps smaller measure the grief at the passing of Frank Kabel. My prayers are with his family and friends.

By: Russell Proctor

Russell Proctor — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:03:00 +0000

Frank was a very special person who I never had the privilege of meeting personally.

We exchanged several e-mails and he will always be remembered. There are not enough genuine, good willing people around, so today is a very sad day indeed.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:47:00 +0000

That is truly awful and bought a tear to my eyes when I read that. I have corrresponded with Frank on a couple of occassions and he seemed like a really nice guy.

Sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Dave

By: Stacie

Stacie — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:09:00 +0000

I use Exceltip quite frequently when I have a question. Frank always had an answer for me…

By: Norman Harker

Norman Harker — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:15:00 +0000

I'm sure that I speak for Bob Phillips and Ron de Bruin when I say that three of Frank's close friends and collaborators were devastated by this. We will struggle to complete projects that were ongoing.

I've received the following from Excel MVP, Harald Staff, Norway that is worthy of sharing:

QUOTE:
It is not obvious, even to a skilled computer user, what newsgroup participants do. A newsgroup is a global, public, electronic message board where everyone can post just anything they want. When it comes to computer topics, newsgroups are mostly used to ask for solutions to some problem, and a helpful person will hopefully reply with a working solution.

This is what we do in the Excel MVP community. We are Excel experts that assist peoplewith solutions to Excel tasks, so they can learn from it, or just use it to get a job done or a problem solved. We do not get paid for this, it is just a nice thing to do, and we learn a lot ourselves while doing it.

Frank started posting Excel solutions in newsgroups just a few years ago, and never did we see a more productive, dedicated person. My estimate is that Frank assisted about 50 new people, complete strangers from all over the world, for free, every single day weekends included. Some of the solutions are usually simple, common knowledge, but in Franks case many solutions was tailored for the person in need, industry strength professional work. Always patiently explaining, always friendly and
understanding.

This is the work of a very special person, and I guess he would be no more than a few kilometres away from a grateful friend just anywhere on the globe. I am very sorry that Frank is no more with us.
UNQUOTE

You'll be missed Frank! But you'll never be forgotten and will live on in the many thousands of people you have helped.

Thanks Dick.

Norman Harker

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:28:00 +0000

i like to thank norman harker for his gentle and well composed words in the excel newsgroup...

norman, nobody could have expressed our feelings better in our mothertongue than you did in yours...

thank you very much indeed...

wolfgang

By: Colo

Colo — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:43:00 +0000

I knew about this sad news by Monika’s email in this morning. I’m very sorry for his friend and his family.

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:13:00 +0000

lieber frank………..

ich kann es nicht glauben……….

…wolfgang

By: Doug Glancy

Doug Glancy — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:35:00 +0000

My condolences to Frank’s family and friends. I appreciate his generosity and all the knowledge he shared with us.

By: David Brett

David Brett — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:32:00 +0000

Shocking news.

Commiserations to his family and friends