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 <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com>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 "path/to/document.xls" with "path/to/application" > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > Get the extIco2Png external for LiveCode here http://qery.us/1w6 > > On 21 apr 2012, at 11:19, 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 disc, double clicks the file on > > disc which opens in Excel > > > > I can get the shell command to open excel on my machine but I don't know > > how to get LC to open excel with the file. > > > > > > Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated > > > > -- > > Regards > > > > > > Ian McKnight > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com ======================= _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
