[OFF] PowerPoint [was Re: Scripting OS X Mail app]
[OFF] PowerPoint [was Re: Scripting OS X Mail app]
- Subject: [OFF] PowerPoint [was Re: Scripting OS X Mail app]
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:36:45 -0500
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:25:42 -0800
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Subject: Re: Scripting OS X Mail app
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From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
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... of MS Office v. X. If you have any version of Office,
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no matter how old, there's an affordable upgrade offer direct from MS (half
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the price of the regular upgrade price). It's still way more than any other
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email app would cost because you also get Word, Excel and PowerPoint, which
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makes it a bargain if you need even one of those in OS X, but not otherwise.
Don't upgrade just for the sake of PowerPoint, it is still not scriptable,
(there isn't even a lousy "do script" command). One can write a macro, AFTER
learning the needlessly complicated Visual Basic language, (because unlike
the Windows version, PowerPoint for the Mac still does not record macros).
Having written a macro, you have to save it into a presentation file, unlike
Word, where you can save to the "normal" template. Having created your
macro, you have to run it from inside PowerPoint because, like I said,
there isn't even a lousy "do script" command.
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It has an excellent object model, is based on Outlook Express scripting but
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expanded and improved, and is a pleasure to script.
I've just moved from Outlook Express to Entourage, no problems so far...
P.S. Please stop having interesting disscussions while I'm sick and in
bed...
P.P.S I spoke too soon: Why does Entourage keep trying to capitalize
the first letter of each new line that I type ???
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