Applescript to open text edit document cut and paste to MS Word

Hi Taylor, thanks for your help.

OK, I'm trialing this with textedit before I MS word to get the script right, then will swap it to MS Word.

This is what I have so far, it come up with the following error: Syntax error: Expected end of line but found identifier:

tell application "Finder"
open "Macintosh HD:Users:Chris:Desktop:Labels:Finished labels:labelstoprint.txt"
end tell
delay 2
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "a" using command down
keystroke "c" using command down
end tell

tell application "TextEdit"
quit
end tell

tell application "TextEdit"
create new document
end tell
delay 2
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "v" using command down
end tell

ok - sorted that - it was 'make new document' i needed.

My path is incorrect now does applescript recognise a path with a space in the folder name? ie - "Finished labels"

Hi Taylor, thanks for your help with this and your advice has helped me progress this project and make it better!

I'd like a little bit more help if possible.

Since posting this I've moved away from MS Word as my job is a designer, so I normally use Quark.

What I've managed to do with automator and applescript is come up with a program which does the following things:

• pastes source code in text editor
• cleans text to provide addresses
• move addresses to quark
• replace "*" with the down tab to flow addresses between text boxes to create labels
• apply style sheet.

I'd just like to add 1 step before all this which is taking the source code from the webpage which I am viewing. I searched internet and found the following which takes the code and drops it in text edit, but it errors with the warning "TextEdit got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." and this stops it moving on to the new automator action.

This is the code taken out of automator:

on run {input, parameters}

tell application "Safari"
-- The following line collects info used by the Terminal editors
set myURL to the URL of document 1 as string

-- Retrieve the source from the browser
set mySource to the source of document 1 as string


-- Start TextEdit Code
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
make new document at the beginning of documents with properties {text:mySource}
set modified of front document to yes
end tell
-- End TextEdit Code


end tell

return input
end run

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll look into this and whilst I'm doing that I thought I'd tell you exactly what I'm doing which may help you help me!

I'm trying to automate getting addresses for ebay sales, from the print label window. ie. I have a safari window with all the addresses in, so I'm retrieving this source code and automating the process to move it into quark and avery label template I've set up.

Thanks

Perhaps I should also clarify that I'm talking about mailing addresses, not e-mail or website addresses!

Further to this...

I set this automator/applescript action up on a leopard machine, but it will actually run on a tiger machine...

So, my watch and do automator action for pasting the info into quark doesn't work anymore!

So if you could tell me how to add a "paste into the first box" applescript to the find and replace bit, that would be most helpful.

Am I going mad - should I just use my fingers and do it manually?!

okey, solved that. Currently have this script.


on run {input, parameters}

tell application "QuarkXPress"
tell document 1
set tool mode to contents mode
tell page 1
(select story 1 of text box 1) paste
end tell
end tell
end tell
tell application "QuarkXPress"
tell document 1
tell current box
tell story 1
set every text where it is "*" to ASCII character 11
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
return input
end run