On 23-May-2001 John Allain wrote:
> Unix: the power of the commandline and sumpeme interoperability.
> Could someone show me how to automate Excel and Word together
> in one bat file? Oh that's right, I have to buy VB. And keep
> upgrading it.
Perl + Win32::OLE
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/
or just plain VBA (which comes with Word or Excel, I belive)
Batch files were barely able to do complex tasks in DOS, so forget about
Windows.
-Philip
Received on Wed May 23 2001 - 18:16:27 BST