Microsoft Word 5.1 versus Word for Office X
Microsoft Word 5.1 versus Word for Office X
- Subject: Microsoft Word 5.1 versus Word for Office X
- From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:10:14 -0600
This is a related problem to the issue of transitioning between two
versions of an application that have the same name.
I have two versions of Microsoft Word on my computer. Microsoft Word
5.1 (circa 1992) and Word for Office X. The old version of Word still
opens some files that Word:X cannot open, and crashes less often (how
far Microsoft has gone in 10 years).
Normally, this is not a problem for scripting. Only Word:X is
scriptable, so scripts will include:
tell "Microsoft Word"
and everything is fine.
But, on the occasions when Microsoft Word 5.1 is running, but Word:X
is not (most likely because Word:X just crashed), AppleScript tries
to use Word 5.1 instead, which just results in some very vague errors.
Even changing the creator code for the old version of Word (from
"MSWD" to "WD51", for example) doesn't stop this from happening.
Again, this is more an annoyance than anything else, but it would be
nice to have protection against this in my scripts.
- David Crowe
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