Re: automator
Re: automator
- Subject: Re: automator
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:00:31 -0600
- Thread-topic: automator
On 11/27/2007 21:32 PM, "Timothy Klein" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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).
In addition to what PaulB said, what you are saying is well, wrong.
In order to use Automator with an application, the application must support
the various automator methods, i.e. AppleScript, Shell, Cocoa, etc. Excel
has a rather extensive AppleScript dictionary, so it is absolutely able to
support Automator actions, and in fact, a quick search on Google for Excel
Automator Actions quickly brings you to Hanaan Rosenthal's set of 80 Office
Automator actions, which include Excel. Here:
<http://automatoractions.com/files/msofficeactionset1.0.1.html>
Pages has Automator support, Numbers currently would only be able to support
Automator via Cocoa frameworks or possibly shell, since it doesn't have a
scripting dictionary.
What you're not realizing is that "wrapping some shell or AppleScript in
Automator" is in fact how one creates Automator actions.
I *think* you meant to say "Microsoft doesn't currently ship Automator
actions for Office, and most likely never will." The first part of that is
correct, the second is again, wrong.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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