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Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / May 2008Disable splash screen in XL04?
Is there a way to disable display of the splash screen in Excel 2004 (or 2008 for that matter) when starting Excel via Applescript? This would be similar to the Excel/Windows "/embedded" command line switch - and for the same general purpose, to embed Excel functionality within another application and make the integration appear somewhat seamless. "set the startup dialog to false" doesn't do it - that's for the Project Gallery. On 5/28/08 5:20 PM, in article 545a6381-bcb1-486b-8d9f-7d8ddee072a4@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com, "Jack Marr" <jlmarr@mac.com> wrote: > Is there a way to disable display of the splash screen in Excel 2004 > (or 2008 for that matter) when starting Excel via Applescript? This [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > seamless. "set the startup dialog to false" doesn't do it - that's > for the Project Gallery. I don't think this is possible via VBA, so I doubt it can be done with applescript.  SignatureBob Greenblatt [MVP], Macintosh bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom > Is there a way to disable display of the splash screen in Excel 2004 > (or 2008 for that matter) when starting Excel via Applescript? This [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > seamless. "set the startup dialog to false" doesn't do it - that's > for the Project Gallery. Hi A similar question was asked in a different newsgroup. The short answer is that it doesn't seem possible to completely prevent Excel from showing for a second or so, but the suggestion was made to immediately move the Excel window off the edge of the display so that any further activity doesn't show. There's a code example from Peter at this (very long) URL: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel.programming/browse_thread/ thread/d5cd3239e5ba1b0c/996a2e08d905b0a8?lnk=st&q=#996a2e08d905b0a8 -Jim SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are independent experts who are not affiliated with Microsoft. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Visit my blog http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-i7JMeio7cqvhotIUwCzaJWq9 >> Is there a way to disable display of the splash screen in Excel 2004 >> (or 2008 for that matter) when starting Excel via Applescript? This [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > -Jim To follow up a bit more, I found a Microsoft Developer Network article that talks about how things get started in Excel (and other applications). This article explains what happens when an application starts up: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms233841.aspx It also explains how to replace and and control how long the splash screen stays on. The trouble is that all this fancy stuff requires Visual Studio, which is not supported on the Mac. I imagine that the folks at MacBU can manually control all of these things, but these aspects of the application object are not exposed through the current Mac visual basic object model. If you think this sort of stuff should be supported on the Mac, be sure to send that thought to Microsoft via Excel's Help > Send Feedback feature. -Jim SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are independent experts who are not affiliated with Microsoft. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Visit my blog http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-i7JMeio7cqvhotIUwCzaJWq9 On May 29, 6:26 pm, Jim Gordon MVP <goldke...@warmerthanwarmmail.com> wrote: > If you think this sort of stuff should be supported on the Mac, be sure > to send that thought to Microsoft via Excel's Help > Send Feedback feature. Thanks, I've now done that. |
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