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AppleScript for PowerPoint Presentations

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:10:53 +0000

This is for those of you who use PowerPoint on a daily basis. The code found in this script can be a real time saver when you have certain presentations that your organization needs to run frequently.

If you are used to doing scripting directed to ‘normal’ Apple applications, scripting PowerPoint will look a little [...]

Choose File Dialogs

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:23:56 +0000

In this post, we continue with the ‘choose file’ command. Like the ‘choose folder’ command, it returns a reference pointer to the actual file that it represents. In this case, it returns an alias reference to a document such as:

set theFile to choose file with prompt "Select a file to open:"

With the following [...]