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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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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 [...]

AppleScript Droplet to Convert Text to HTML

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:34:13 +0000

Sometimes it’s nice to just eliminate some typing when creating html documents, especially when you write your HTML by hand (as I do). Even if it is just for the sake of setting up the initial template so you can get down to the details more efficiently.

Copy this into your Script Editor [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]