Finally! Applescript question I can answer! Except, after I looked up
the script I discovered you can use Automator instead. Foiled again!
Option 1:
Avoid scripts entirely and use a Character Style that applies color.
This is probably most useful for text with some sort of structural
consistency that you might want to track--say, you are tagging all your
Quotations green as you type to see how much text is directly quoted and
then later you want to remove that green you can just redefine the
character styles to no color, but leave the style applied. Or, let's say
you are taking notes from a book and color coding different topics--I
think a Character style might let you Select All Green Character Style
text and copy it to a new doc at once, via Find and Replace.
But character styles can get confusing as they overlap with other styles
or formatting, so you are fine to avoid them. And you might be able to
do Copy All Green Text without character styles, not quite sure. If you
haven't run into these needs before, you probably won't.
Option 2:
this works on my machine:
tell application "Microsoft Word"
set color index of font object of selection to green
activate
--I'm not totally sure the activate is necessary, but I think it's
useful to make sure focus is returned
end tell
Installation Instructions:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/InstallApplescript.html
The Word 2004 AppleScript Reference (page 114-115) says your options
(instead of green) are:
auto
black
blue
bright
green
dark blue
dark red
dark yellow
gray25
gray50
green
no highlight
pink
red
teal
turquoise
violet
white
yellow
There's a mysterious line about a different way to specify RGB colors
that I didn't manage to make work.
Option 3:
Automator--UNLESS you have the home and student version, there is a
pre-built Action for Word in Automator, "Apply Font Format Settings"
that would let you apply a color to selected text, and you can select
from the entire OS X color wheel, looks like. I didn't test this one.
Daiya
boboq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Version: 2008
> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
> Processor: Intel
>
> Hi:
>
> In Word (and PowerPoint) X and 2004, I had macros that allowed me to
select text and change its color via a predefined key combination. This
allowed me to quickly highlight text in various colors. This feature is
gone in 2008, and apparently you can use AppleScript to replace this
function.
>
> I have tried to search various web sites for some ideas for how to write
such a script and have tried to play with modifying some existing scripts
so that they would, for example, change font color rather than pasting
unformatted text. However, I am not having any luck.
>
> I'd really appreciate it if an AppleScript savvy colleague could 1)
point me to a site where such scripts exist; or 2) give me some examples
of appropriate scripting language to write such scripts.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bob Q.
>
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