Re: Some basic AppleScript questions and about PowerPoint scripting
Re: Some basic AppleScript questions and about PowerPoint scripting
- Subject: Re: Some basic AppleScript questions and about PowerPoint scripting
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:07:19 -0500
- Thread-topic: Some basic AppleScript questions and about PowerPoint scripting
On 4/24/06 10:07, "Steve Butcher (Steve-O)" <email@hidden>
wrote:
> 2) My review of the list suggests that working with Microsoft Office
> 2004 using AppleScript is not conventional? I'm trying to do just a
> few simple things:
>
> tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
> activate
> open document file "~/presentations/12341234.ppt"
> end
Have you tried doing the full path as HFS-style, but text, not alias? Office
is kind of weird about such things. As well, I'd avoid the tilde shortcut
for "home directory root" in general with AppleScript unless it's in a "do
shell script" command. I've had inconsistent results
--
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years later.
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