Learning AppleScript for Beginners » text object 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 Formatting and Editing Text Objects with Word 2008 http://www.scriptsforapple.com/formatting-and-editing-text-objects-with-word-2008/ http://www.scriptsforapple.com/formatting-and-editing-text-objects-with-word-2008/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:08:14 +0000 admin http://www.scriptsforapple.com/?p=1170 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 [...]]]> http://www.scriptsforapple.com/formatting-and-editing-text-objects-with-word-2008/feed/ 126 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