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  • Subject: Selecting Text in MSWord
  • From: "Coe F. Miles Ph.D., J.D." <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 06:14:32 -0500

Apologies for asking what should be a simple question, but ...
How does one SELECT text in a MSWord document so that it
can be passed to a follow-on action in Automator?

The following MSWord actions rely on selected text being
passed to them:
+ Apply Font Format Settings to Word Documents
+ Find and Replace Text in Word Documents
+ Get Content from Word Documents
+ Get Selected Content from Word Documents
+ Get Text from Word Documents

Each of these actions need text passed to them. I cannot figure
out how to do this. 

For example, I want to select a word from an open MSWord file, and
then apply a specified font format to it. This sounds like ti should be
easy. It is easy to find the word (use the Find and Replace Text in
Word Documents action). However, this action does not allow one
to change the font style, only the "Apply Font Format Settings to 
Word Documents" action allows this. However, when I feed the results 
of the "Find and Replace Text in Word Documents" action to the 
"Apply Font Format Settings to Word Documents" action, nothing 
happens. It appears the word found is not "selected" and is not, 
therefore, passed to the font format action.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,

CFMiles.


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