From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T21:19:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32OLE. Opening an existing file.

Ken Bloom wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:12:51 +0900, Peter Bailey wrote:
> 
>>> 
>> Thanks, Victor. I tried it with an existing file, and, it worked! It's 
>> pretty slow, but, the books warned me about that. So, are you saying 
>> that all of the WIN32OLE instructions are simply VBA instructions? So, 
>> technically, I could derive my answers by just looking at the VBA help 
>> in Word or Excel??
>>
> 
> Precisely. VBA is just another language for controllng OLE objects, so 
> the
> same API's are available for VBA and Ruby (and any other language you
> might choose that talks OLE).
> 
> --Ken

Interesting. I noticed that, in the Win part of these instructions, the 
path was only respected when done with "\" instead of the Rubyish "/." 
So, it really is one world within another. Thanks!

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