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Hans Lenting Netherlands Member (2006) German to Dutch
Dec 20, 2020
I've been testing some Applescripts to quickly convert MS Word documents to PDF. I've found this particular script very useful:
tell application "Finder" set input to selection end tell
tell application id "com.microsoft.Word" activate set view type of view of active window to draft view
repeat with aFile in input open aFile set theOutputPath to ((aFile as text) & ".pdf") repeat while not (active document is not missing value) delay 0.5 end repeat set activeDoc to active document save as activeDoc file name theOutputPath file format format PDF close active document saving no end repeat end tell
Tested with Word for Mac version 16.44
In the Finder, select the MS Word documents that you want to convert.
Run the script.
[Edited at 2020-12-20 10:22 GMT]
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Dan Lucas United Kingdom Local time: 12:03 Member (2014) Japanese to English
Nice
Dec 20, 2020
Hans Lenting wrote: I've been testing some Applescripts to quickly convert MS Word documents to PDF. I've found this particular script very useful
Vaguely reminiscent of ARexx on the Amiga! Not a MacOS person, but good to see people discussing automation, thank you.
Dan
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