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Automate Microsoft Word using AppleScript and VBA
"What I did discover is that Word has a reputation for problems with AppleScript."
Prior to the release of Microsoft Word '04, there really wasn't much of an AppleScript implementation at all. The current AppleScript implementation is new from the ground up in Word '04. It should be possible to do much, if not all, of the work of your script in pure AppleScript as of now. But since the AppleScript implementation is new, you won't find the kind of pre-made examples on the web that you will for VBA.
Automate Microsoft Word using AppleScript and VBA
Well, for me ANY Applescript with the "do visual basic"-command fails! I always get the error message "Ambigous name was detected: TmpDDE" (or something like that - that was my translation from Swedish) - and the Applescript executing stops.
Automate Microsoft Word using AppleScript and VBA
One thing I didn't mention in my submitted hint about Automating Word using AppleScript and Visual Basic, and should have, is what versions of things I was using.
Here's my system, hardly the latest 'n greatest!
I truly don't know what effect using a newer version of any of these would have on my script. Also, I think Word has a lot of possible security settings (ranging from "risky" to "dangerous" I guess :) ) and I'm sure it's possible to have Visual Basic turned off or not even available. Good luck to everyone who goes down this path. |
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