Re: Help using Shell to open a file in Excel

2012-04-21 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Apr 21, 2012, at 5:19 AM, Ian McKnight wrote: > Hi > > I have a stack which produces a set of tables which I want to export to > excel. > > What I would like: > User clicks a button in LC and excel opens with the tables in place. > > What I have: > User clicks a button, saves the file to dis

Re: Help using Shell to open a file in Excel

2012-04-21 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi Mark You are quite correct - I just failed to read the dictionary entry carefully enough! Thanks On 21 April 2012 10:27, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Why do you want to use the shell? There is a launch command, which lets > you launch a document with an application: > > launch "pa

Re: Help using Shell to open a file in Excel

2012-04-21 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Ian, Why do you want to use the shell? There is a launch command, which lets you launch a document with an application: launch "path/to/document.xls" with "path/to/application" -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-t

Help using Shell to open a file in Excel

2012-04-21 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi I have a stack which produces a set of tables which I want to export to excel. What I would like: User clicks a button in LC and excel opens with the tables in place. What I have: User clicks a button, saves the file to disc, double clicks the file on disc which opens in Excel I can get the