hi this is my first attempt at scripting, i'm a quick learner, but after deliberating this for some time i finally have to ask for some help.
i am trying to change the itunes to appleworks script so that the playlist will export to a new EXCEL document instead of an appleworks spreadsheet.
my problem is this:

tell application "Microsoft Excel"
make new spreadsheet at front with properties {Name:"Summary of " & List_to_summarise, spreadsheet:"paul"}
set parts to 1 -- this is how many spreadsheats excel has created during this script..limit of 500 rows on creation
end tell

when i run the script it says 'error, The variable spreadsheet is not defined.'

i've looked in the excel dictionary and i can't find how to define a spreadsheet. or whatever.
some help would be appreciated because this has been driving me NUTS.
thanks in advance!