Learning AppleScript for Beginners » AppleWorks 6

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 [...]

Scripting Primer for Pages Documents

admin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:26:34 +0000

If you have used AppleWorks 6 in the past, this script for Pages should be easy to follow, although the syntax is not exactly the same as AppleWorks.

In fact, the Pages application was derived from AppleWorks 6 ! To see the similarities (and the differences) check out some of my other posts on AppleWorks.

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Script to Set AppleWorks Font from ‘Choose from List’

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:18:00 +0000

I came upon this one kinda by chance as I was working on another script. This uses GUI to get the first 10 fonts of the font menu in AppleWorks, displays them in a ‘choose from list’ dialog and, when you make a selection, selects the entire contents of the frontmost document and sets the [...]

Converting HTML to Text Format

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:24:08 +0000

Often, I copy text from one of my posts into a text file for further editing (typos, script errors etc) only to find that I have copied the HTML too, which is not good since it’s not usually the HTML that I want to edit, and therefore makes it difficult to focus on what I [...]

Getting Acquainted with General GUI Terms and Objects

admin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:53:43 +0000

AppleScript GUI is for many an intriguing aspect of AppleScripting, yet, as straightforward as it seems on the surface, successfully compiling a script can be a lot of trial-and-error and frustration.

In this post, I will get you started with 3 good examples of GUI [...]

Creating New AppleWorks Document Using GUI

admin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:45:55 +0000

This script shows how to go about using GUI to perform menu and sub-menu tasks with AppleWorks 6 to copy the contents of the frontmost window to the clipboard and to paste them into a new document.

This script presumes both that Assistive Devices [...]

GUI Scripting for System Preferences Panes and Apps

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:06:00 +0000

By directing script statements to the ‘System Events’ application, you can get the system to perform keyboard and other tasks as if you were actually manually performing them yourself. It is not only a great way to automate tasks, but it is also an effective measure for applications that are otherwise ‘unscriptable’. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Enhanced – New Doc for AppleWorks 6

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:14:19 +0000

It has become abundantly clear to me that there is still a lot of interest in AppleScripts for AppleWorks 6 and questions on implementation of scripts that my previous posts on this topic have not addressed to the satisfaction of those who use AppleWorks 6 and, since it is an application that is still [...]