Re: MS Word Text Boxes Scriptable?
Re: MS Word Text Boxes Scriptable?
- Subject: Re: MS Word Text Boxes Scriptable?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 03:40:56 -0800
In VB Editor (Tools/Macros/Visual Basic Editor/Help), I see that TextBox
Control is a huge topic - about 50 Properties, 6 Methods. It's part of
'Microsoft Forms' (User Forms) rather than Microsoft Word, but accessible in
VBA from Word, so I think you should be able to control all of this using
'do Visual Basic' in AppleScript.
Unlike Word X's native (non-VB) AppleScript, Excel's AppleScripting is very
good. But I've just discovered that it seems to be broken in the latest
update Excel 10.1.5: I'm getting Value of 0 for every Row and Cell. That's
no good at all. And I couldn't get UsedRange of ActiveSheet. Without these,
it's unusable. I've just filed a bug report. If you've installed the 10.1.5
updater, use the Remove Office utility (in Value Pack on the CD) to
reinstall Office v. X, then reinstall the Office 10.1.2 Updater and -
probably 10.1.4 Updater. I haven't yet had a chance to check 10.1.4 but I
think it was working fine. Excel 10.1.1 (what you get with the 10.1.2
Updater) was certainly working great and you don't want less than that. I'll
check 10.1.4 soon.
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: Jason Bourque <email@hidden>
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:15:21 -0500
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To: AS <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: MS Word Text Boxes Scriptable?
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Thanks for the info.
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Well, it is a box with text in it. And with the solid arrow tool double
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click on the box and a dialog pops up with Format Text Box as a heading.
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That's why I call it a text box.
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What is your view on Excel AppleScriptability?
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Thanks,
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Jason Bourque
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On 1/28/04 9:39 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 1/28/04 6:03 PM, "Jason Bourque" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I am using Office X. OS 10.3.
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>> Are the Text boxes Word Scriptable? From the dictionary it doesn't look like
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>> it.
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> Most of the things in the dictionary don't work properly anyway. But yes,
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> you should be able to script them using "do Visual Basic" command.
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> What do you mean by Text boxes?
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