[Tutor] Hoping to benefit from someone's experience...

[Michael Langford]

Office VBA is pretty much the same objects as the Office COM object.
You use the same for both, so probably can do it in python very close to the
same speed as vba

       --Michael

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompkins at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Again with the forgetting to cc the list...
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Alternatively learn enough VBScript to do it all in Word itself....
>
>
> That's exactly what I'm doing now.  After mentioning in a previous email
> that formatting is important, I took a closer look at the documents that OO
> had converted... and they weren't as good as I thought at first.  No
> disgrace to OO; the fact that anybody outside of Microsoft has ever managed
> to make even a little bit of sense out of the .doc format is a testimony to
> human ingenuity and stubbornness - but it's just not good enough.  So,
> despite my enthusiasm for Python and the fact that VBScript repulses me, I
> think I need to start fresh and do it the Redmond way.  If I were building
> something for long-term use rather than a one-time conversion, I would
> figure out how to drive Word from Python, but under the circumstances I'll
> hack something quick and dirty in VBS.  (Does anyone remember VBA?)
>
>
>
> It's funny - years ago I used to use Visual Studio and _enjoy_ it.  I'm
> spoiled now, I guess.  By the way, there was a recent XKCD that I liked:
> http://xkcd.com/409/
>
>
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