Re: scripting Word top copy text - should be simple, but ain't
Re: scripting Word top copy text - should be simple, but ain't
- Subject: Re: scripting Word top copy text - should be simple, but ain't
- From: "Charles Arthur, UKClimbing Editor" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:37:11 +0100
Thanks for the attempted answers on this (which have come up in my RSS
newsreader before the digest has arrived - uh).
textutil: nice try, Shane, but I'm afraid that it can't do Word 5 files -
it leaves the control characters in.
Mr Tea: did you look at what Word Vx produced as the result of the script?
>set mytext to text of window 1
for me, that just gives "text of window 1" as an application object. But
there's no way I can coerce it to the actual *text*. (A reminder: I'm using
Word 2004, which has - no exaggeration - something like 100 entries in its
dictionary for "text" (including text range, text column, text columns
evenly spaced) including two different ones called "text", both of which
are for text insertion, and about 20 called "text object" which seem to be
properties of all sorts of different things.
But none that is just the "word things in the document/window". Argh!!
This *must* be possible, surely.
best
Charles
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