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Win Explorer to Excel
(Windows NT & Excel 97)
Does anyone know of a way to return the current directory being viewed by Windows Explorer to Excel? Thanks. Trent |
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Shockley,
This is truly a great suggestion, which I will definitely consider for home. But, I don't want to go through the Admin red tape of having it installed on my system at work. Thanks for the help. Trent -----Original Message----- One way: You could launch a script program like AutoIt which has a command that will return the active window. You would then have Autoit save this information in a text file and have Excel open, read, and close the text file. http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt/ Shockley "Trent Argante" wrote in message ... (Windows NT & Excel 97) Does anyone know of a way to return the current directory being viewed by Windows Explorer to Excel? Thanks. Trent . |
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Trent, glad you liked the idea--you must have a little Rube Goldberg in you
<g. Regards, Shockley "Trent Argante" wrote in message ... Shockley, This is truly a great suggestion, which I will definitely consider for home. But, I don't want to go through the Admin red tape of having it installed on my system at work. Thanks for the help. Trent -----Original Message----- One way: You could launch a script program like AutoIt which has a command that will return the active window. You would then have Autoit save this information in a text file and have Excel open, read, and close the text file. http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt/ Shockley "Trent Argante" wrote in message ... (Windows NT & Excel 97) Does anyone know of a way to return the current directory being viewed by Windows Explorer to Excel? Thanks. Trent . |
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shockley, very astute of you. I have not heard of this Goldberg fellow,
so I read his bio on the net. His observation is the same in nature as my long running concept of "Harder, Sooner Vs. Easier, Faster". For example, my boss will give me a task, I'll suggest writing a procedure that will take 4 hours, but will minimize the actual task-time to under five minutes; but he wants it in an hour. So, I work harder to get it done sooner instead of writing the routine (easier) which will result in regular efficiency (faster) in the future. Thus we tend to expend great amounts of effort to achive the simplest of results. It's also the same principle as expending the lesser cost up-front to meet the immediate need instead of expending a greater cost up-front to regularly meet the need, which will result in a lesser cost in the long run. It's all based on impatience - we want it NOW! Sorry for the mini-lecture. I love talking about this stuff (if you couldn't tell). <grin Nice conversing with you, shockley. Trent Argante *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it! |
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Rube Goldberg is more about doing things in absurdly complicated fashion,
rather than making the most efficient machine--which is how I feel about some of my vba+Autoit creations, but at the point I'm doing them it's the only way I know. But your point is well taken, seeing as a lot of software is entirely about automating task drudgery--and I often ask myself why didn't I do it right the first time?? when I notice how much manual labor I could have been avoiding. Regards, Shockley "Trent Argante" wrote in message ... shockley, very astute of you. I have not heard of this Goldberg fellow, so I read his bio on the net. His observation is the same in nature as my long running concept of "Harder, Sooner Vs. Easier, Faster". For example, my boss will give me a task, I'll suggest writing a procedure that will take 4 hours, but will minimize the actual task-time to under five minutes; but he wants it in an hour. So, I work harder to get it done sooner instead of writing the routine (easier) which will result in regular efficiency (faster) in the future. Thus we tend to expend great amounts of effort to achive the simplest of results. It's also the same principle as expending the lesser cost up-front to meet the immediate need instead of expending a greater cost up-front to regularly meet the need, which will result in a lesser cost in the long run. It's all based on impatience - we want it NOW! Sorry for the mini-lecture. I love talking about this stuff (if you couldn't tell). <grin Nice conversing with you, shockley. Trent Argante *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it! |
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