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Re: tell app with short name
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Re: tell app with short name


  • Subject: Re: tell app with short name
  • From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:46:46 -0600

Maybe if you rename "Microsoft Excel" to "Excel".


On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:

In Tiger it was a big improvement when I could say

tell application "Excel"

instead of the full name "Microsoft Excel" as long as the app was running.
Now I find in Leopard that this doesn't work: I'm back to having to use the
full name again. Is this one of those cases of one step forward, one step
back? m.


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