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Converting Month of Date into a Different Format

admin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:26:44 +0000

Here, I show you how to convert a month name to its numerical data and visa-versa. This can be very useful when, for instance, you have databases in which you need to display the date in a long, more user-friendly form, and in another, where you want a more condensed, short date for a [...]

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 [...]

Display Alert Dialogs

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:24:00 +0000

These are a type of dialog, introduced in OS 10.4 (Tiger), which are similar to regular dialogs (in use as well as syntax), the noteable difference being that their purpose is to expand upon the standard ‘display dialog’. They are used when it is important to impart further information on the state of the Finder [...]

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 [...]