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Re: How is the applescript support in Office 2004?
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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'.

--
Paul Berkowitz


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