Found and Automation and Automator and Entourage and Excel and Microsoft Office 2008 and MicrosoftOffice2008 and Powerpoint and WordCory Bohon on 10 Mar 2008 04:00 am
Mac Automation: automating Microsoft Word 2008
Filed under: Features, How-tos
When Microsoft released Office 2008 for Mac, they did something that I must applaud -- they joined the ranks of Mac developers creating Automator-able applications. When you do a search in Automator for "Microsoft," it will reveal all of the Automator actions that ship with Microsoft Office 2008. There is lots of great stuff included, so we'll be covering some of it in this four part Mac Automation series. I will take you through how to automate each of the Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage.First off, let's take a look at what you can automate in Word 2008. Doing a search for "Word" in Automator will display the available actions for Microsoft Word. As you can see, there are plenty of actions that you can automate. For this how-to, we'll focus on a workflow that does the following:
- Creates a new document
- Sets document properties
- Gathers text from the clipboard
- Places a watermark in the document
- Saves the document
- Prints the document
Continue reading Mac Automation: automating Microsoft Word 2008
Permalink | Email this | Comments
