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- From: lincoln@think.com (Lincoln Marta)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Exchange Data between Excel and My Program ?
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 16:14:53 -0400
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation
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- Sender: root@Think.COM (Operator)
- Message-ID: <9209032014.AA06393@neptune.think.com>
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- Is it possible to interface my own Windows program with the
- database utilities offered in Excel for Windows and to run
- Excel in the background (i.e. not seen)?????
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- The application that I'm writing makes use of a great deal
- of data that must be able to be updated without directly
- interfacing with the actual program. For example:
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- A doctor who owns a small practice keeps all his/her
- data on an Excel spreadheet. Data may include:
- Patient weight, height, illness, treatment, ...
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- The doctor utilizes the program to enter a search
- criteria. For example he/she wants to know about
- patients that weigh over 185lbs who suffer from
- diabetes. The program then puts this search
- criteria into a variable/s and then executes
- some macro-like function to execute the search in
- Excel. Then store the matching criteria into
- variable/s and port them back to the main program which
- the doctor uses.
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- I know that Excel itself can do this, but I need
- Excel to be invisible to the user, except for
- database data entry.
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- In summary, I would like to be to:
- 1. Take search criteria variables from main program, and
- 2. Use these variables with functions inside Excel's database,
- 3. to return information from Excel back to the program.
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- and then go outside and play.(Joke)
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- Thanks in advance,
- Please send responses to:
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- lincoln@Think.Com
- "I really don't make these questions up."
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