Re: wooooooordx ! (rant) & AS
Re: wooooooordx ! (rant) & AS
- Subject: Re: wooooooordx ! (rant) & AS
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:16:43 -0500
On 4/14/04 3:52 AM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 14 avr. 04, at 15:56, Kirk McElhearn wrote:
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> My new e-book: Take Control of Users and Accounts in Panther
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did anybody write something like "take control of word(x)" ? i mean,
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since i installed it (including all the old stuff from office 98 to
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access excel files etc) my machine has been take over by freezes !!! i
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hate it !!! there is even a bug somewhere (since i installed classic
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and office 98) that makes mail.app totally freeze the system (with no
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crash log no nothing, just a radical good ol' freeze->forced
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restart->5mn for checking the disks etc before login window comes) when
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office/classic has been in use since the last boot !!!
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i haaaaaate m$stuff !
That's nothing to do with word vX. Sounds like you've some other issues.
Perhaps running some diskwarrior checks would help here.
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can't all those company techies figure out another nicer (?) format !
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pretty much all the stuff i do in technical translation could be done
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(aught to be done) with free tex like stuff (lyx etc) ! get real you
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corporate guys !!!!!
Because using *tex sucks if you just want to type?
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ok. cool down.
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anybody here using applescript in wordx ?
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i'd like to do the following thing since most of the work i have is
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basically over writing the original with the translation:
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have applescript select a paragraph
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copy it in a display window
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let me write my translation below it
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reinsert the translated stuff at the original spot
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(i don't care so much about formatting, italics et all right now, just
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want to have the paragraph separately from the word document).
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it looks like it is _exactly_ what AS is able to do, i just don't have
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the brain at the right place right now... heeeelp ! if somebody could
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give me just the core structure of that thing, i could fiddle with it
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and start learning...
Applescript in Word v.X is broke. I imagine it will be fixed in 2004, but
for now, it's borked. You'll have to use some VBA to get this done, or, if
you have it, Real BASIC.
john
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