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Re: How is the applescript support in Office 2004?
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Re: How is the applescript support in Office 2004?


  • Subject: Re: How is the applescript support in Office 2004?
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 06:35:17 -0700

On 5/21/04 5:13 AM, "Walter Ian Kaye" <email@hidden> wrote:

> At 12:37p -0700 05/20/2004, Paul Berkowitz didst inscribe upon an
> electronic papyrus:
>
>> BTW, one big difference in Excel scripting is that you can no longer use
>> R1C1 style references. (Aside from anything else, there were terrible bugs
>> in French and German Excel which had their own versions - "S1C1" etc. but
>> results were returned as RICI so it couldn't understand its own results!)
>> "A1" works: best is to use "absolute values "$A$1", i.e., using the column
>> and row denominators exactly as they appear in the worksheet.
>
> Hmm. So then how would you write a script to do something with the
> cell 1 row above the active cell, if you can't do R[-1]C?

There are a few ways. One way would be:

set higherCell to get offset (active cell) row offset -1


If you need to you can then check on its coordinates by:

set {r, c} to {first row index, first column index} of higherCell

--
Paul Berkowitz
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