Applescript for inserting comments in Word 2008

Hello

Firstly, I don't use MS Word for myself and I cannot provide anything but educated guesses on Word scripting.
Now, you might try something as follows to insert a Word comment into the current selection.

--SCRIPT1
tell application "Microsoft Word"
make new Word comment at selection with properties {author:"your mentor", comment text:"review this"}
end tell
--END OF SCRIPT1

OR

--SCRIPT2
tell application "Microsoft Word"
collapse range text object of selection direction collapse end
make new Word comment at selection with properties {comment text:"review this"}
end tell
--END OF SCRIPT2

SCRIPT2 is the same code as given in p.192 of 'Word 2004 AppleScript Reference' (pdf) which you can obtain via the links listed below. But, if I'm not mistaken, collapsing the text range of a selection in advance is not required to make new Word comment at the selection. (I may be wrong of course).

cf.
For Word scripting:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/developers/default.mspx
Word 2004 AppleScript Reference (pdf)

For AppleScript:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangG uide/
AppleScriptLanguageGuide.pdf

Hope this may be of some help.
H

Message was edited by: Hiroto (fixed typo)

PS.
The AppleScript Language Guide at the given link is for AppleScript 2.0 introduced with OSX10.5. There're certain differences between AS2.0 and pre-AS2.0, notably in text class implementation and its handling. Except for that, the Guide applies to pre-AS2.0 as well.

H

This works great for me, I can use this script to insert a comment using MacSpeech Dictate. I have one other question, though. How do you tell AppleScript to put the cursor in the comment box? This script leaves the cursor in the text, which is still then requires a mouse operation to dictate the comment in the text box. Thanks in advance for your help.

Joe

I figured out another way of doing this. I assigned a keystroke (control+C) to "insert comment" and then had the AppleScript perform that keystroke.

Joe