Learning AppleScript for Beginners » error http://www.scriptsforapple.com Discussions on AppleScripting, with emphasis on tutorials for those new to scripting. Example scripts of general utility, as well as some that relate to specific applications (FileMaker Pro, AppleWorks, Script Editor, specialized scripts and others). Some discussion of HyperCard and AppleScript and the Classic (OS9) environment Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:06:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Creating a New Document with Microsoft Word 2004 http://www.scriptsforapple.com/creating-a-new-document-with-microsoft-word-2004/ http://www.scriptsforapple.com/creating-a-new-document-with-microsoft-word-2004/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 23:45:16 +0000 admin http://www.scriptsforapple.com/?p=392 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 [...]]]> http://www.scriptsforapple.com/creating-a-new-document-with-microsoft-word-2004/feed/ 24 Trapping for List Dialog Errors http://www.scriptsforapple.com/trapping-for-list-dialog-errors/ http://www.scriptsforapple.com/trapping-for-list-dialog-errors/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 20:16:03 +0000 admin http://www.scriptsforapple.com/?p=370

With ‘List Dialog’ type dialogs, since errors cannot be intercepted in an ‘on error’ handler, there is no ‘normal’ way to trap for ‘Cancel’ which, of course, would result in some sort of undesirable error dialog such as ‘User cancelled. Error number -128′. Here is an example of one simple way I have found [...]]]> http://www.scriptsforapple.com/trapping-for-list-dialog-errors/feed/ 15