Re: Excel Scripting
Re: Excel Scripting
- Subject: Re: Excel Scripting
- From: "Joe Crocenzi" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:39:29 -0700
I learned my limited knowledge of Applescript by picking apart sample
scripts I have found, and I am now intersted in doing some Microsoft Excel
applescripting, but cannot seem to find any when I google "Excel
Applescript". Any ideas for finding some samples? TIA
Gary's response>>
That's the limit of your search?!
Ask yourself: "Joe, what would almost all published script samples of Excel
applescript contain?"
One suggestion (which yields many search results) starts with "tell
application".
--
Gary
<OT-mini-blog>
When I was a high school teacher, myself and one other teacher coordinated
our efforts and spent loads of time on "how to search": in libraries, online
(limited at that time to CompuServe, Institute for Global Communications,
and some excellent library databases via Telnet), and in the Reader's Guide
to Periodical Literature. We received professional criticism from other
teachers who felt we were over-reliant on teaching broad search skills, and
that we should focus on specific subject matter "key publications".
Today, when I read many times a day "I couldn't find anything on Google", I
am convinced that our early instincts were correct: how to search is _the
crucial skill_, especially given that most people do not look beyond the
first page of results for a search query.
Google's own meteoric ascension, and the inclusion of 'googling' into the
common vocabulary, suggests the growing importance of "search" in our lives,
both technical and personal. Bill Gates has recently been describing a
physical media-less world, where search will be _the center_ of our digital
lives. (From last week's speech by Gates at the University of Waterloo. He
also predicts "DVD is the last physical media format there will ever be.
There won't be one after this one.")
My niece recently concluded that 'Serenity' was not playing locally because
it wasn't on Yahoo's local listing. I opened the daily paper and found it
instantly...2 theaters, 6 shows per day.
</OT-mini-blog>
End of Gary's response<<
Thanks Gary for your excellent advice. I Googled "Tell Application" as you
suggested and will now spend the next 40 years sifting through 93,000,000
matches. I obviously tried multiple searches before posting to this User
Group, and would not have wasted your time if I thought there was another
way I could find a solution. Sorry we all can't be as astute as yourself.
Thanks to all the rest of you who sent help off-line to me directly. I
really appreciate it and hope to be able to help someone else in kind in my
area of expertise someday. Skulking back to being a lurker....
Joe
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