Learning AppleScript for Beginners » Word 2008

Removing HTML from a Word 2008 Document

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:22:18 +0000

This is a script, that I use to strip the HTML from my web documents. It really comes in handy, when you want to edit the content of a document without all of the distractions of all of the HTML tags getting in the way. It was written specifically for use with Word 2008, although [...]

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 [...]

Choose Application

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:39:51 +0000

The ‘choose application’ command is very similar in syntax to the ‘choose file’ command, in fact, so similar that I will not go into too much detail. As in my post on the enhancements to the list dialog, I will present a script and then explain the purpose of the parameters used as needed:

set [...]

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 [...]