Re: automator
Re: automator
- Subject: Re: automator
- From: Timothy Klein <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:32:15 -0700
On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:05 PM, Marc D. Rusch wrote:
hello,
has anyone actually gotten automator to do anything other than the
canned functions it comes with. Perhaps I am missing something but
I am trying to figure out a way to take a spreadsheet and automate
the reorganization of columns, apply a sort, change the font and
size for the entire file, format all columns to fit and save. Using
either pages or excel. Can anyone tell me if this is even something
that can be done. I suspect I am conceptually missing something
about how automator works.
In order to use Automator with an application, that application needs
to have Automator actions built-in. Neither Excel, Numbers, nor Pages
have actions built-in, so you can't do anything with them in
Automator, at least not directly (if you could do something in those
apps with a shell script or Applescript, you could wrap that in
Automator, if you wanted to).
Excel will likely never have Automator support. Pages and Numbers
*ought* to have Automator support, but they currently don't (Keynote
does).
Sincerely,
Timothy Klein
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KleinVox Software
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http://kleinvox.com
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