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From: ramaley@csli.Stanford.EDU (Alan Ramaley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: does excel know the name of an inserted disk?
Message-ID: <18686@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Apr 91 17:56:55 GMT
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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Hey folks.  A little excel quiz for you.

(1) Is there a way, in excel, to tell what the name of the disk in an
internal drive is?  In a macro I'm writing, I ask the user, 'please
insert a disk so I can do a back-up', but then I need to call up
SAVE.AS?(), and they have to click on drive, and yes, they want to
replace the old one, and so on.  I want to be able to figure out the
path to the disk, for any given disk, with any number of hard-drive
partitions, so I can make all of this invisible to the user.

(2) Also, is there a way to specify the format of a document without
saving it?  That is, can I designate 'Untitled1' as format 'text',
instead of 'normal', when I open it?  Otherwise I'd need to do a
SAVE.AS("fakename",3).  I want the document to be unsaved but text.

So, set me up.

-- 
Alan Aitken Ramaley
(415) 497-5265, P. O. Box 9217, Stanford, CA  94309
Senior, Symbolic Systems
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