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Re: Excel 2004 Script Not Working
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Re: Excel 2004 Script Not Working


  • Subject: Re: Excel 2004 Script Not Working
  • From: "Jack (Shekhar) Stoller" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:22:59 -0400

Paul,

Thanks for the advice. For some reason I still got the raw codes even with
Excel X open, but I moved the script up to my other computer and from there
it looked correct (and I could run them -- very timely for budgeting this
week). I'll work on fixing it up for Excel 2004 soon.

Jack

>
> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:00:44 -0700
> Subject: Re: Excel 2004 Script Not Working
> From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
> To: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
>
> The Excel dictionary in 2004 is completely different from X and earlier.
> (It's also a lot bigger.) Have you looked at both of them?
>
> The underlying "raw code" is utterly changed. but the "English" versions
> aren't too different for terms that existed in X, except they're lower case
> and have spaces between component words instead of squishing them together.
> There are a few other differences.
>
> So open your script while Excel X is open. Save it (or a copy) as Text - not
> Script or application. Close the script. Quit Excel X. Quit your script
> editor (essential). Open Excel 2004. Open your script editor. Open the Excel
> 2004 dictionary.
>
> Now go through your text script (which looks the same as before aside form
> being uncompiled text) and change all the SquishedTermsLikeThis into the
> unsquished terms like this in the new 2004 dictionary. Check everything.
>
> When done, compile. Find your errors (AppleScript will help you by selecting
> the first one, one at a time) and fix them. In the end, when it compiles,
> save it as Script or Application, as needed.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
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