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Re: Excel ?


  • Subject: Re: Excel ?
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 23:44:59 -0400

On 05/13/2003 22:09, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> did proclaim:

>> Okay, so I have a tab delimited file I want to open in Excel. "OpenText"
>> seems to be what I want, but I'm not able to pass it the file reference it
>> wants.
>>
>>
>> Ideas?
>
>
> It wants a file path, not an alias, although it doesn't say so.
>
>
> tell application "Microsoft Excel"
> OpenText "OS X HD:Users:berkowit:Documents:More Bugs:Contacts Export
> EvX.txt" with TabDelimiter
> end tell

Yep, I figured it out about ten minutes after I sent...i'd ask why, but
since it works, I don't care ;-)

john

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