Re: How to Paste into Outlook 2011 using keystorkes/System Events
Re: How to Paste into Outlook 2011 using keystorkes/System Events
- Subject: Re: How to Paste into Outlook 2011 using keystorkes/System Events
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:50:50 -0500
On Feb 25, 2016, at 11:17 AM, Yvan KOENIG < email@hidden> wrote:
tell application id "com.microsoft.Outlook" activate set myClipboard to the clipboard
set the clipboard to “HELLO WORLD"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Microsoft Outlook" set frontmost to true keystroke "a" using {command down} keystroke "v" using {command down} end tell
set the clipboard to myClipboard end tell
It is not necessary to enclose the 'keystroke' command in a 'tell process "Microsoft Outlook"' block. The 'keystroke' command automatically goes to the frontmost process.
You don't need to 'tell process "Microsoft Outlook" [to] set frontmost to true' because you already told 'application id "com.microsoft.Outlook" [to] activate'.
It would be nice to move the GUI Scripting block outside of the 'tell application id "com.microsoft.Outlook"' block. Perhaps put it in a subroutine handler, or perhaps just use more 'tell application id "com.microsoft.Outlook"' blocks.
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