Re: Excel ?
Re: Excel ?
- Subject: Re: Excel ?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 21:34:30 -0700
On 5/13/03 8:44 PM, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Okay, so I have a tab delimited file I want to open in Excel. "OpenText"
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>> seems to be what I want, but I'm not able to pass it the file reference it
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>> Ideas?
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> It wants a file path, not an alias, although it doesn't say so.
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> tell application "Microsoft Excel"
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> OpenText "OS X HD:Users:berkowit:Documents:More Bugs:Contacts Export
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> EvX.txt" with TabDelimiter
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> end tell
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Yep, I figured it out about ten minutes after I sent...i'd ask why, but
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since it works, I don't care ;-)
I'd guess VBA compatibility or parallelism, and/or somebody forgot
AppleScript doesn't usually work that way...
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Paul Berkowitz
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