However you do it, the scripts should then appear in Word’s Scripts menu (just to the right of the Help menu, shown with the stylized S icon).Įditor’s Note: We didn’t have for all of Joe Kissell’s AppleScripts for Word 2008 in the original magazine article, so we added three more to this article. (By default, it’s in your user name/Documents.) Alternatively, if you’d rather not type them out yourself, you can download them and copy them into the same folder. To use these scripts, type them into Script Editor (in /Applications/AppleScript) and save them, with the file format Script, in the Microsoft User Data/ Word Script Menu Items folder. They solve some basic problems in Word some of them replicate macros I created with VBA in earlier versions of Word. (You can put them in a menu and assign keyboard shortcuts to them, though.) And three, you can’t embed AppleScripts in a Word document (as you could do with VBA macros) if you want someone else to use a script you’ve written, you’ll have to send them the script file along with the document.Īs examples of what you can do with AppleScript in Word 2008, I created the following scripts. Two, you can’t attach AppleScripts to toolbar buttons.
#WORD ENTER FOR JOE AND MAC CODE#
That means you must code AppleScripts by hand. One, Office 2008 doesn’t support the recording of AppleScripts as it once did for VBA. The good news is that, with a little tinkering, almost anything you could do with a VBA macro in previous versions of Word, you can now do with AppleScript in Word 2008. In its stead, Microsoft recommends that you use AppleScript and Automator. Unfortunately, Word 2008 doesn’t support VBA. Prior to Office 2008, you could automate repetitive tasks and add entirely new features in Microsoft Word by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros.
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