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Applescripting Office X


  • Subject: Applescripting Office X
  • From: "Claude M. CAUWE" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 18:03:36 +0100

I have lots of trouble porting an lawyer's office administrative system which relies mainly on a FileMaker set of databases and Applescripts transferring names, addresses and case references to MS Word (initially Office 98) for mail redaction.

In OS 9, simple commands like

tell application "Microsoft Word"
activate
set cell 2 of table 1 of front document to customerAddress
save front document in folderPath & folderName & ":" & saveName
end tell

worked perfectly. Now, with the upgrade to Panther (and, subsequently to Office X), i'm dumped in big trouble because none of the simple commands (make new table, set cell .. of table .., etc) works anymore.

For some of them, i for sure can use the "do Visual basic" command, followed by the reference of the table to be created.
But my most important trouble remains to SET the CELLS of the newly created table... I need to put variables in these celles, thos variables being the names and case references, etc..., which come from FileMaker...

Ant help would be grandly appreciated, for no litterature already exists on how to Applescript Word X.

Many txs in advance

Claude
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