AppleScript to export from Numbers to Excel

Does anyone have an AppleScript to export the currently open Numbers document to an Excel document whereby the Excel document is given the same name and destination folder as the Numbers document?
I've searched this Discussion and the one on AppleScript, but have come up empty.
Thanks in advance!

The response is available in:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7055035
but here is a list of the scripts available on my iDisk
<http://idisk.me.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>
in the folder:
foriWork:forNumbers:
(###) ###-####.zip
4Delattre.zip
anything2tab.zip
batch_AW56SS2Numbers.zip
batch_AW5SS2AW6.zip
batch_AW6SS2Numbers.zip
batch_Excel2Numbers.zip
batch_Numbers2Excel.zip
cells2TSV.zip
columnFilter.zip
columnsincolumn.zip
comma2period.zip
dateToDutch.zip
dayornight.numbers.zip
DB2CSV.zip
deci2degrees.zip
decoupeur.zip
découpeIndex_de_Numbersvieux.applescript
English2French.zip
English2German.zip
Fonctions_Numbers.zip
insertrowcolumns.zip
moveone_cell_down_orright.zip
moveone_cell_up_orleft.zip
Nbre en Lettre v2,5pourNumbers.zip
Nbrin_Letters_forNumbers.zip
numérote_Numbers.zip
padWithZeroSlashed.zip
pasteDateTime.zip
pasteFormulas.zip
pasteSpecial.zip
pastethename.zip
pastethepath.zip
phone_numbers.zip
pour_étiquettes.zip
pourmodifierNumbers.zip
rowFilter.zip
save2Numbers&PDF&xls&zip.zip
semiColons2Tabs.zip
sortcolumn_ofnumbers.zip
sortcolumn_ofstrings.zip
sortextractcolumn.zip
sort_row.zip
swap_sign.zip
table2csvBento.zip
Tables2Numbers4.zip
Texte_Vertical.zip
Time in Numbers.zip
timeCode.zip
transpose4Numbers.zip
UPC codes.zip
updatePrices.zip
virgule2point.zip
zarbi.zip
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 27 octobre 2008 16:41:55)

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