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New Drawing Document with AppleWorks 6

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:13:50 +0000

The basics of creating a drawing document with AppleWorks 6 are similar to those for creating a text document.

The script below, appropriately named ‘Graphics Hodgepodge’, shows a variety of graphics objects that can be created and some of the properties that can be set with a script. There are a lot of details [...]

Creating a New Document with Microsoft Word 2004

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:45:16 +0000

For those of you who prefer to use Word for your text documents, this is a fairly straightforward script to create a new document with a default font and text and save it to your hard drive:

tell application "Microsoft Word" activate try set newDoc to make new document set name of font object [...]

AppleScript for Creating a New Document with AppleWorks 6

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:49:42 +0000

Simple script to create a new AppleWorks document followed by a more detailed script with text entry fields.

If you use AppleWorks 6, you may find this script useful in creating new documents. It should be fairly easy to see how this can be adapted to your specific needs. There is a similar script for [...]