It was linked from the installation instructions:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/add_shortcuts.html
You're welcome.
boboq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Perfect! Thanks so much! (And thanks for the prompt reply.)
>
> Now I just have to figure out how to assign keyboard shortcuts. ;-)>
>
> BQ
>
>
>> 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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