Transferring the values from a known range of cells (containing formulas) in Excel using Applescript

Question

I have my AppleScript iterating thru email messages and pasting data (which arrives via email from a web form) into following cells: range "A1:A50"
My Excel parsing of data occurs in cell formulas on Row 52, cells in range "A52:AZ52"
I want to copy the cells in row 52 and paste the Values (not the formulas) in successive rows underneath the formula cells, starting with row 54: range "A54:AZ54"
In pseudo code the code snip is:
tell worksheet "sheet1" of workbook "Example" application "Microsoft Excel"
     repeat i from 1 thru to (count emails)
          paste some of the contents of (email item i) into sheet range "A1:A50"  
                                        # the above forms about twenty lines of code to get it
                                              into Excel's cell object list or lists
          copy or get row 52   # or range "A52:AZ52" if that's easier/faster/better
          paste or set the values of row 52 into row (53+i)
     end repeat
end tell
Not sure whether to use the clipboard with "paste speical…[range] with []" or copy and set value statements. I only know how to reference existing ranges, not the cell contents of the range. I really need to know how to get contents of cells into a AppleScript object (list) that I can transfer. The 2004 Excel AS documentation is not helping me, please throw me a life line someone. :-)

Answer 1

One other question if I may hijack my thread, if I wanted to set the column of the range programatically how would I do that?
I know how to programatically set the row eg.
     set x to 54
     set r to range "A" & x & ":AZ" & x
     set tVlaue to value of r
But I need something like Column (x) to make one of {"A","B","C",…}
but column(2) gives me $B:B$
and: "column(2) as text" (so I can halve it) beachballs Script Debugger and Excel and I have to stop the script and restart Excel!