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RE: Making Word windows invisible or small
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RE: Making Word windows invisible or small


  • Subject: RE: Making Word windows invisible or small
  • From: "Frank W. Walker" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 16:04:26 -0400
  • Thread-topic: Making Word windows invisible or small

Oops!
Sorry, that is what I meant to say I tried:

tell application "Microsoft Word"
activate
open "document"
tell front window of front document
set visible to false
end tell
end tell

It didn't work.

Frank


> ----------
> From: Marcus Rodrigues
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 3:59 PM
> To: Frank W. Walker
> Subject: Re: Making Word windows invisible or small
>
> Tried set visible to false?
>
> On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 04:42 PM, Frank W. Walker wrote:
>
> > I'm writing a script that opens a text file or Word doc in Word and
> > reformats the text. It is slower than I'd like, and I was wondering if
> > I could make the windows of the opened document small or invisible,
> > which hopefully would speed up the process.
> >
> > I tried:
> >
> > tell application "Microsoft Word"
> > activate
> > open "document"
> > tell front window of front document
> > set invisible to true
> > end tell
> > end tell
> >
> > It compiled ok, but when run it returned a message that it couldn't
> > set invisible to true for the window.
> >
> > Any help available?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Frank
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