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Re: Scripting Excel X
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Re: Scripting Excel X


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Excel X
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 09:00:16 -0700

On 5/6/02 8:07 AM, "Eric Phillips" <email@hidden> wrote:

> I am running OS 10.1.3 with AS 1.7. I wrote a script to have Excel open a file
> and run an Excel macro using the
>
> Evaluate "macro name"
>
> statement. I got this statement by recording the action. The problem is when
> you run the script the macro does not run.

You need to include the name of the Workbook followed by a "!" followed by
the name of the macro with () after:

Evaluate "Workbook1!Macro Name()"

It's one of the very, very few things in Excel AppleScripting that is
described in the MS Knowledge Base:

<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support/mysupport.asp?lu=0>

>So to fix that I took the time to
> convert the macro to AppleScript. My problem here is I want to refer to a cell
> in the form
>
> select cell(rowcounter, 2)
>
> The problem of doing this in AS is that I think it is looking at the cell
> coordinates as an array because it changes the () to {}. To get the cell
> coordinates into its preferred syntax I need to do the following
>
> set cellref to "R" $ rowcounter & "C2" as text
> select cell (cellref)

Yes.
Cell "R4C2"

is the way to refer to a cell, for example. Your code is a little wordy, but
correct. If you just call your variable 'rowcounter' by the letter 'n'
instead, it becomes:

set cellRefto "R" & n & "C2"
Select Cell cellRef

which isn't too bad.
>
> Am I missing something or do I need to add this extra step every time I need
> to change my cell reference?

There's possibly a neater way to do it if you supply more sample code.

>Is there a problem of calling Excel macros from
> AS?

No, just poor documentation. 'Evaluate' works as above.



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Paul Berkowitz
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