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Removing HTML from a Word 2008 Document

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:22:18 +0000

This is a script, that I use to strip the HTML from my web documents. It really comes in handy, when you want to edit the content of a document without all of the distractions of all of the HTML tags getting in the way. It was written specifically for use with Word 2008, although [...]

Converting Month of Date into a Different Format

admin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:26:44 +0000

Here, I show you how to convert a month name to its numerical data and visa-versa. This can be very useful when, for instance, you have databases in which you need to display the date in a long, more user-friendly form, and in another, where you want a more condensed, short date for a [...]

Extracting Text Using Offset and Reverse vs Text Item Delimiters

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:13:53 +0000

There are times when you want to extract part of a text string from another for some specific purpose. There are two basic methods and each has its advantages and disadvantages. We’ll start with a combination of offset and reverse to remove the suffix from “seattleSunset.jpg”:

set jpgFile to characters of "seattleSunset.jpg" –This gives us [...]

Formatting and Editing Text Objects with Word 2008

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:08:14 +0000

While Microsoft has its own scripting language (Visual Basic for Applications or ‘VBA’) to do all (most) of the same things as presented here, it is rather clunky and difficult to use compared with the more natural syntax of AppleScript.

Here we will look at some of the most necessary scripting elements for Word 2008 [...]