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That was an EE notification email I was very keen to open. That works Tim so thank you for spotting this fix :-) Just out of interest, did you find it by pull or push?
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That was an EE notification email I was very keen to open. That works Tim so thank you for spotting this fix :-) Just out of interest, did you find it by pull or push?

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Hi Jamie,<br />
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I did a straight search for your issue and up it popped. &nbsp;<br />
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As far as the updates go, I have my Microsoft updater tool set to check for updates weekly. &nbsp;Because of the update setting, I never had a chance to even test for the issue. &nbsp;It was already handled by the time I became aware of the problem.
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Hi Jamie,

I did a straight search for your issue and up it popped.  

As far as the updates go, I have my Microsoft updater tool set to check for updates weekly.  Because of the update setting, I never had a chance to even test for the issue.  It was already handled by the time I became aware of the problem.

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Due to Microsoft implementing Office:mac 2016 in a sandboxed environment, they've had to introduce a new mechanism for calling Apple scripts. When calling with the new AppleScriptTask command (executes an AppleScript script file located outside the sandboxed app), I see an empty grey &quot;window&quot; for the duration of the script's run time as in this screenshot (the same happens for Excel and I assume Word):<br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/02_w07/1080672/AppleScriptTask-grey-box.png" target="_blank" title="Empty grey AppleScriptTask window (seen above the slide title) (100 KB)"><img alt="Empty grey AppleScriptTask window (seen above the slide title)" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 800px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/02_w07/800_1080672/AppleScriptTask-grey-box.png" /></a><br />
Is there anyway to stop this from showing as this user visible UI interruption is a show stopper for my project?
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Empty grey AppleScriptTask window (seen above the slide title)

AppleScriptTask-grey-box.png

Due to Microsoft implementing Office:mac 2016 in a sandboxed environment, they've had to introduce a new mechanism for calling Apple scripts. When calling with the new AppleScriptTask command (executes an AppleScript script file located outside the sandboxed app), I see an empty grey "window" for the duration of the script's run time as in this screenshot (the same happens for Excel and I assume Word):



Is there anyway to stop this from showing as this user visible UI interruption is a show stopper for my project?

Empty grey window appears when using Office:mac 2016 and VBA AppleScriptTask

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