Re: automator
Re: automator
- Subject: Re: automator
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:42:47 -0800
On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:35 AM, John C. Welch wrote:
On 11/27/2007 20:05 PM, "Marc D. Rusch" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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.
What you need to do is to download actions, which are Automator
modules for
the application in question, neither Excel nor Pages ship with them.
While
you *can* extend automator actions, that's a bit of programming to
do it, so
in general, no, you can't easily make Automator do anything other
than what
the Actions allow for.
Of course, one of the actions is "Run AppleScript", so if the
application in question is scriptable, which Excel is, then you can do
quite a bit. OK, it won't be a "real" action with its own UI and
whatnot, but it's still quite useful.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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