Re: How is the applescript support in Office 2004?
Re: How is the applescript support in Office 2004?
- Subject: Re: How is the applescript support in Office 2004?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:22:50 -0700
Actually, 'selection' is a property of the application. It shouldn't be 'of'
anything - just 'the selection'.
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: trinko <email@hidden>
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:21:51 -0700
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To: <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: How is the applescript support in Office 2004?
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Office 2004 is very scriptable but it has one heck of a learning
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curve. It took me forever to figure out that in order to get an
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instance of the find class--which you need for the execute find
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command -- you need to get the selection instance of the window, not
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the document. On the plus side once we get some references out
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there--AppleScript for Dummies will only scratch the surface-- you
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should be able to script just about anything imaginable in any of the
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Office apps. The Mac BU has done a good job.
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one note not all errors generate errors so
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tell application "Microsoft Word"
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set x to 4
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try
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set x to some script command which is illegal
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on error e
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display dialog e <-- this dialog doesn't always execute
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end try
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end tell
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x --> you get an error here that x isn't defined
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tom trinko http://members.aol.com/trinkos/basepage.html
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