Re: Microsoft Word 5.1 versus Word for Office X
Re: Microsoft Word 5.1 versus Word for Office X
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Word 5.1 versus Word for Office X
- From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:29:28 -0600
I've solved my problem with two versions of Microsoft Word.
I just ran the following applescript to convert the Creator Type of
the old Word to something else:
tell application "Finder"
set creator type of ("Tinantia:Applications (Mac OS 9):Word
5.1:Word 5.1a" as alias) to "WD51"
creator type of ("Tinantia:Applications (Mac OS 9):Word
5.1:Word 5.1a" as alias)
end tell
This probably means that I can't double-click on files to open the
old version of Word, but I only use this for a handful of files, so
that's not a big problem.
For some reason FileBuddy wouldn't change the creator type for me (it
said it did, but it changed right back again), which caused me some
confusion.
Now, if I try to open a Word file with Applescript and Word:X is not
running, the application will be run and the file opened with it.
- David Crowe
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