RE: Making text plain or bold in Word
RE: Making text plain or bold in Word
- Subject: RE: Making text plain or bold in Word
- From: "Frank W. Walker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:11:04 -0400
- Thread-topic: Making text plain or bold in Word
Tried Shane's script and it works pretty well, but a couple of quirks.
Looks like Word is counting spaces as words so I have to set the number of words to 3 to get it to change 2 words.
Also, a "/" character throws off the count as well.
I put in an if/then to check for slashes, so here is what I came up with by trial and error, which I'll probably refine later.
set style of text of document 1 to plain
if word 3 of document 1 is "/" then
set wordnumber to 4
else if word 4 of document 1 is "/" then
set wordnumber to 5
else
set wordnumber to 3
end if
set style of text from word 1 to word wordnumber of document 1 to bold
Thanks for all the help and ideas! This list is awsome!
Frank
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From: Shane Stanley
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 7:34 PM
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To: AS lists
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Subject: Re: Making text plain or bold in Word
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On 12/4/03 2:56 AM +1000, Frank W. Walker, email@hidden, wrote:
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> All I want to do is change all text in an opened Word document to "plain",
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> then change the first two words of text to "bold".
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> Easy, I hope?
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In AppleScript, you could try something like this:
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tell application "Microsoft Word"
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set style of text of document 1 to plain
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set style of text from word 1 to word 2 of document 1 to bold
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end tell
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Works here in Word 98.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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