Hello,
Although I've had a Mac for a few years now, I've never delved into Apple
script.
I find myself needing to start from scratch to replace a Macro in Word
2008
(MS eliminated VBA from this new version of Office - that's another story
for another newsgroup).
In any case, I've looked at Automator, but it also seems very wizard
driven
with pre-set actions.
Can you build individual actions from scratch in Automator (in Apple
script
I'm assuming), or are you forced to use the actions already there for each
app? If that's the case, the actions don't do everything I need them to
do.
What I do with the Macro is a re-formatting of text in docs sent by
clients
with several steps. (I record narration for a living - but my eyes are
getting a mite older - hence the re-formatting requirements - for ease of
reading.
1) Select All
2) change font to 14 pt Times New Roman
3) Change spacing to 1.5
4) Add Header with filename information
5) Add footer with page info - usually "page x of x" (is there any way to
make this conditional? Like if it already exists, don't do this? Ditto for
the header.)
From there I re-save the file in its current directory with a letter
appended to the file name to indicate the one I need to use.
I'm perfectly willing to try to learn how to do something like this
myself,
or perhaps someone can guide me from an existing script that I haven't
found
in the last couple of days.
I'm also willing to pay someone to do it (I hope that's appropriate to
post
in this forum - sincere apology if it's not).
Can you help?
Thanks.
Paul Boucher
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