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Re: Can anyone explain Word behavior???
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Re: Can anyone explain Word behavior???


  • Subject: Re: Can anyone explain Word behavior???
  • From: Bill Planey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:19:31 -0600

>Word has a proprietary clipboard which often seems unavailable from
>AppleScript. What would be much more reliable would be to not use the
>clipboard at all but just save the information and insert it into the second
>document. That's easy enough in basic AppleScript (saving to a variable) for
>unformatted text, but it's more difficult for your tables and for styled
>text. All the definitions you need _are_ in Word's AppleScript dictionary,
>but I've often found that trying to do more intricate things in AppleScript
>in Word can be very tricky, and often unreliable, frustrating and
>failure-prone. What works perfectly is to learn how to do what you need in
>Visual Basic for Word, then use the command 'do Visual Basic "[the VB script
>here]" '. I'm sorry that this is not an easy answer, but it's the one that
>works. Even the clipboard works perfectly in VB, but using range, etc. is
>often better.
>
>--
>Paul Berkowitz

Are there any books or other documentation guides as to how to master
Visual Basic for Word on the MACINTOSH? M$oft won't even field questions
from us higher-level users without swiping our credit card first, and
there's
no guarantee on the relevance or existence of their tech support answer.

Thanks,
Bill Planey


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