{"id":4387,"date":"2016-09-09T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2019-07-07T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:56:57","slug":"new-button-command-in-cd-menu-creator-open-excel-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/new-button-command-in-cd-menu-creator-open-excel-file\/","title":{"rendered":"New button command in CD-Menu Creator: Open Excel File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have added a new button command to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/cd-menu-creator\/cd-menu-creator.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CD-Menu Creator<\/a> that may be useful for all of you that open Excel files from a menu interface created with CD-Menu Creator. The name of the command is <strong>Open Excel File<\/strong>, and it have some special functionality that can not be achieved with the other button commands in an easy way. You can for example send command line parameters (switches), together with a path to the Excel file, to the Microsoft Excel application.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-cd-menu-creator\/cdmc-editor-dialogbox-add-button--open-excel-file.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"There is a new button command in CD-Menu Creator with the name 'Open Excel File'\"><\/p>\n<p>With the new <strong>Open Excel File<\/strong> command you can open the following types of Excel files: <strong>.XLS<\/strong>, <strong>.XLSX<\/strong>, <strong>.XLTX<\/strong>, <strong>.XLSM<\/strong>, and <strong>.XLTM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-cd-menu-creator\/cdmc-editor-select-file--filetype.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"You can open different kind of Excel files with the new button command\"><\/p>\n<p>By entering command line switches in the <strong>Parameters<\/strong> text box in CD-Menu Creator you can control how Excel files are opened in Microsoft Excel. For example, if you enter <strong>\/r<\/strong> in the <strong>Parameters<\/strong> text box, the Excel file is opened in read-only mode.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about available command line switches for Excel here:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-us\/article\/Command-line-switches-for-Excel-c6f24136-e80c-4de9-a0ca-d5c68792cc6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Command-line switches for Excel<\/a> <em>(opens a page on Microsoft&#8217;s website)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have added a new button command to CD-Menu Creator that may be useful for all of you that open Excel files from a menu interface created with CD-Menu Creator. The name of the command is Open Excel File, and it have some special functionality that can not be achieved with the other button commands &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/new-button-command-in-cd-menu-creator-open-excel-file\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New button command in CD-Menu Creator: Open Excel File&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6038,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/6038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}