Re: beginner's Excel script (round2)
Re: beginner's Excel script (round2)
- Subject: Re: beginner's Excel script (round2)
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:21:09 -0800
On 3/27/04 3:40 PM, "Walter Ian Kaye" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 03:18p -0500 03/27/2004, Michael Bovee didst inscribe upon an
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electronic papyrus:
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> The goal of my script is to pile into one Excel file many columns of
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> X,Y numerical data (for later importing into my graphing program) from
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> a whole bunch of text files that Excel is capable of opening directly.
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Sounds to me like the entire process can be done within Excel using
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one of its native scripting languages (XLM or VBA; your choice). It
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seems rather ridiculous to use an external language when you are
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starting and ending inside Excel.
But AppleScript IS a native language of Excel. It has a large dictionary.
Not quite complete, and with a few quirks, which need fixing, but if you
know AppleScript and don't know the other lanuages (what's XLM? I never
heard of it) it will do the job.
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Paul Berkowitz
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