[python-win32] Calling Excel function GetSaveAsFilename, parameter ignored [SEC=PERSONAL]
Andrew MacIntyre
Andrew.MacIntyre at acma.gov.au
Wed Jul 13 09:50:01 CEST 2011
> From: Jason Veldicott
>
> I am wanting to display a file "Save As..." dialog in Excel through Pywin. I am doing
> this by calling Application.GetSaveAsFilename(). The problem however is that the
> parameter supplied to this function, InitialFilename, seems to be ignored by Excel.
> Perhaps it's not getting through to Excel. When VBA was used to call the same
> function, the initial filename displayed correctly.
Some googling turned up http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/excel-prog/137292/GetSaveAsFilename-file-name-is-blank
which might be related to what you're seeing.
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