Re: Word scripting?
Re: Word scripting?
- Subject: Re: Word scripting?
- From: Dave Groover <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:44:36 -0500
Yes, I could do the PDF thing again. I have tried it all sorts of
ways. The thing though that amazes me is that with Windows, even when
I send someone a word file, they still have to be told to open it
with Word.
Maybe there is too much viri floating around and they are smart to be
careful of anything not of the modern Windows creation. But PDF
files, to some, are square pegs in round holes. "I'm sorry, that does
not fit with our job description" (Yes some of this is about sending
resumes). And HR types I find to be, generally, a very inflexible lot.
And so I am trying to settle on a best of platform. Word seems to be
the front runner in that category. PDF files are certainly a second.
Although the PDF really limits the copying of data. Again, I am not
asking AS to do complicated things to a Word document. Essentially I
am asking it to use Word as a letter template. I am tweaking my
database output so that all the lines come to the same level. (If
address has a line 2 then line 1, line 2).
At 7:49 PM +1200 3/25/03, David Wignall wrote:
on 25/3/2003 7:22 AM, Dave Groover at email@hidden wrote:
But if Word needs a whole other language then I will definitely
rethink using it as my letter program of choice. I would still want
to translate into word as most others on the planet, in the business
world, use MS Word files.
Something else to think about is that a VBA procedure only exists with an
instance of the application in question, Word in this case. So if you want
something that a user can start independently of Word then AppleScript is
the way to go.
Can you make the letters pdf instead? Or do these need to be editable after
being produced?
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