Re: Scripting MSWord
Re: Scripting MSWord
- Subject: Re: Scripting MSWord
- From: Michael Turner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 13:38:53 -0400
Try changing the memory settings higher. I found large MS Word documents
impossible to print until the memory allocation had been set to 100 MB, then
worked fine, although slow. What a hog.!
/Michael
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From: JJ <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Scripting MSWord
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> I have been writing some simple Applescripts for several text editors,
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> but when I write them for Word 98 on my G3 running 8.6, they run like
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> molasses. The scripts are simple, do visual basic find a pattern, copy
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> that pattern into a variable, activate my app that returns a new
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> variable, paste that variable into Word. But every VB line of this
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> code is so slow....and eventually crashes. Any ideas?
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Word 98 isn't so robust.
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Try Word 2001 or, if you're only doing a search/replace, why don't you try
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doing it via applescript? It's so quickly.
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JJ