Re: Scripting MSWord
Re: Scripting MSWord
- Subject: Re: Scripting MSWord
- From: JJ <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:49:43 +0200
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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?
Word 98 isn't so robust.
Try Word 2001 or, if you're only doing a search/replace, why don't you try
doing it via applescript? It's so quickly.
JJ