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QUESTION POSED ON: 28 August 2006

I need some information on writing special ASCII characters when creating a Microsoft Excel worksheet from Lotus Domino. I need to do the following as I would in Microsoft Excel -- Alt-129 on the numeric keypad. How do I do this in LotusScript?


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Assuming you are using COM to create the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet from LotusScript, you can simply embed the special character directly in your code as follows:

Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.application")
. . . 
xlapp.cells(1,1).value={ü}

I created the special character in the way you describe, by pressing Alt-129 on the numeric keypad. One odd note: When I tried to set the cell value to Chr(129), I inexplicably got a different character.

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