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FW: Mixing Apple Script, Excel and a network
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  • Subject: FW: Mixing Apple Script, Excel and a network
  • From: Courtney Moore <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:16:50 -0500

------ Forwarded Message
From: Courtney Moore <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:16:22 -0500
To: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Mixing Apple Script, Excel and a network

On 8/19/03 11:30 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On 8/19/03 9:26 AM, "Courtney Moore" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I think we are going in two different directions. I see what you are saying
>> about that path not being correct, but I think there is a bigger problem
>> with trying to script Excel on a network. The reason I think this is
>> because when I do the following script
>>
>> Tell application "Microsoft Excel"
>> Create New Workbook
>> End tell
>>
>> I get the error "Microsoft Excel got an error: Can't Continue Create"
>>
>> But if I run that same script on a machine with identical Excel versions but
>> the machine's home directory lives on that machine then there is no
>> problem!!
>
> Courtney,
>
> What do you mean by "the machine's home directory lives on that machine"? Do
> you mean "the OS X user's home directory lives on that machine"? Are you
> using aliases or symlinks (which?) to access your OS X home directory on a
> remote disk? Yes, I believe that's a known issue with all the "Redmond" MS
> apps - Excel, Word, PPT - although not with Entourage - in Office X.
What I was trying to say is that Scripting Excel seems to work on machines
that are not authenticating to our server but does not work on machines that
do authenticate (their home directory lives on the server instead of on
their local machine)

I wonder if Excel is trying to access something in the background and does
not have access to it? ????


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