Re: lingo-l Can't Find Excel File

2002-12-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 11:41 AM, mike cash wrote: The Word and Acrobat files work just fine...the Excel application opens with the error message Can't find file. ...if the user has Excel '97...newer versions of Excel opens the file no problem. Try getting the path to the Excel

lingo-l Can't Find Excel File

2002-12-30 Thread mike cash
Greetings all... I'm working on a very simple one screen interface for my client that has 12 links. Each link opens a file (contained on the CD). The files consist of Microsoft Word (.doc), Microsoft Excel (.xls) and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). The Word and Acrobat files work just fine...the

Re: lingo-l Can't Find Excel File

2002-12-30 Thread mike cash
Try getting the path to the Excel file using BAPI's baShortFilename function. My guess is the path to the file isn't being fed to Excel97 in a way it can understand, and that if you send the short path to the file with your open command, it might just work. -- WthmO Thanks, I'll try

Re: lingo-l Can't Find Excel File-FOUND! ;)

2002-12-30 Thread mike cash
Try getting the path to the Excel file using BAPI's baShortFilename function. My guess is the path to the file isn't being fed to Excel97 in a way it can understand, and that if you send the short path to the file with your open command, it might just work. -- WthmO Thanks!!! The

Re: lingo-l Can't Find Excel File

2002-12-30 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 12:43 PM, mike cash wrote: Try getting the path to the Excel file using BAPI's baShortFilename function. Thanks, I'll try that...but the file has already been renamed to VSR.xls...pretty short. Yes, but if the *path* to the file has space in it a la