Re: Dismissing Excel 2004 Project Gallery
Re: Dismissing Excel 2004 Project Gallery
- Subject: Re: Dismissing Excel 2004 Project Gallery
- From: Nigel Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:44:58 +0100
On 26/5/04 5:58, "David Weiss" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
It's too bad this preference isn't stored in a .plist somewhere.
To which I thought "It must be stored *somewhere*..."
I've only got Excel X but, after a bit of roooting around, I've come up with
something that will read and toggle Excel X's startup screen settings,
without needing to launch Excel:
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on readXcelProjPrefs()
set myString to read file ("" & (path to preferences) & <break>
"Microsoft:Microsoft Component Preferences")
if (ASCII number of character ((offset of "FNXCEL" in myString)<break>
+ 9) of myString) = 0 then
--dialog will not appear
return false
else
--dialog will appear
return true
end if
end readXcelProjPrefs
on toggleXcelProjPrefs() --returns new setting, 1=on, 0=off
set myString to read file ("" & (path to preferences) & <break>
"Microsoft:Microsoft Component Preferences")
set theOffset to (offset of "FNXCEL" in myString) + 9
if (ASCII number of character theOffset of myString) = 0 then
set theNum to ASCII character 1
else
set theNum to ASCII character 0
end if
set myString to text 1 thru (theOffset - 1) of myString & theNum <break>
& text (theOffset + 1) thru -1 of myString
set fileRef to open for access file ("" & (path to preferences) <break>
& "Microsoft:Microsoft Component Preferences") with <break>
write permission
set eof of fileRef to 0
write myString to fileRef
close access fileRef
return ASCII number of theNum
end toggleXcelProjPrefs
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Might interest someone somewhere :-)
Nigel
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