# Re: what can you automate with Ruby?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-what-can-you-automate-with-ruby/67980>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 8, 2006, 8:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-what-can-you-automate-with-ruby/67980 "2006-09-08T08:31:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Torben\_WSSSSlm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Torben\_WSSSSlm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Torben_WSSSSlm)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-what-can-you-automate-with-ruby/67980/1 "2006-09-08T08:31:12Z")

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> If anyone else has any information on Office Automation, and  
> specifically how it fits into Win32OLE, I’d really appreciate  
> it - what  
> I’d really like to have is a “canonical” list of all methods for each  
> available Office module. But I haven’t found anything close to that  
> yet.

I’m using WIN32OLE to control Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

The way I went about to see which properties and methods to call, was to  
load excel, open VBA inside Excel (Alt+F11), then add a reference to the  
library I want to use from the Tools menu. Then I can browse the library  
in the object browser (F2).

Kind regards,  
torben