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Re: Scripting MS Word without VBA?
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Re: Scripting MS Word without VBA?


  • Subject: Re: Scripting MS Word without VBA?
  • From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:46:16 -0600

On 2/26/03 8:43 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:

> If you're really just entering text from the default cursor position
> in a new document, in the default font, then 'set selection to theText'
> should work.

That's exactly what I was trying to do, and I ended up not being able to
either set or get anything at all on a new document. :-(


For anything else, use 'do Visual basic', which is pretty easy
> at this level. Unlike AppleScript, the VBA Help documentation in the VB
> Editor is first-rate.

I dunno, if I'm going to have to learn another language, I'd rather
concentrate on SQL right now....

Thanks,
Michael


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