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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 through [...]

Using Aliases and POSIX Paths

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:18:53 +0000

Over the time that I have been writing AppleScripts, I have found that one of the most difficult, if not frustrating, tasks of writing scripts is referencing files by path so that they can be accessed by other applications.

As you’ll see below, creating a reference that is understandable by the Finder is fairly simple (not [...]

AppleScript for Sending Email with Apple Mail

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:26:42 +0000

This is a very straightforward script to send data to Apple’s Mail application. There isn’t really anything difficult here. It should suffice to note here the AppleScript terms and expressions used here that are unique to the Mail application. You’ll often find that an application has, along with the standard terms that are used by [...]