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WordService - Add useful text handling to Cocoa apps
Authored by: jsuter on Jan 31, '05 11:02:08AM

It is also too bad that it won't work in Word. In fact, I can't get ANY of my text-related services to work in Word. Anyone know why??



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Microsoft Word isn't a Cocoa application
Authored by: Bookman on Jan 31, '05 12:06:17PM

At least v.X isn't. Not sure about Word 2004. My understanding is that Services--that is, things you find under the Services submenu under an applications name menu, e.g. Word--are only available to applications programmed in the Cocoa language.

--Books



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Microsoft Word isn't a Cocoa application
Authored by: jsuter on Jan 31, '05 01:16:04PM

Yep - I'm running 2004 and it still isn't Cocoa. Lousy Microsoft.



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Microsoft Word isn't a Cocoa application
Authored by: DanFrakes on Jan 31, '05 02:39:56PM

They're also available in Carbon apps *if* the developer has chosen to add support for them. For example, Entourage 2004 supports Services even though Word 2004 does not.



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Awesome, thanks
Authored by: jsuter on Jan 31, '05 04:19:02PM

Even on Windows there are a whole whack of inconsistencies between the various office applications. I wish Pages was a little less Quark-like and was more the half-way between BBEdit and Quark.



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