Re: scripting Word top copy text - should be simple, but ain't

Thanks for the attempted answers on this (which have come up in my RSS

newsreader before the digest has arrived - uh).

textutil: nice try, Shane, but I'm afraid that it can't do Word 5 files -

it leaves the control characters in.

Mr Tea: did you look at what Word Vx produced as the result of the script?

set mytext to text of window 1

for me, that just gives "text of window 1" as an application object. But

there's no way I can coerce it to the actual *text*. (A reminder: I'm using

Word 2004, which has - no exaggeration - something like 100 entries in its

dictionary for "text" (including text range, text column, text columns

evenly spaced) including two different ones called "text", both of which

are for text insertion, and about 20 called  "text object" which seem to be

properties of all sorts of different things.

But none that is just the "word things in the document/window". Argh!!

This *must* be possible, surely.

     best

     Charles

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