Hi Peter:
In my opinion, there is no chance that Mac Business Unit will ever support
this. In their opinion, they already DO support it.
We have to be careful with the term "support"
In the SGML/HTML/XML
world, "support" means "Doesn't crash, and doesn't damage it." Mac Office
2008 does that.
What you want is "implement". Again, in my opinion, implementation of
developer options might improve in the next version of Mac Office. For
small values of "improve"
I have little understanding of what AppleScript can and can't do. I believe
the answer is "Yes". AppleScript can apparently address the majority of
objects that can exist in a Word document.
If you use AppleScript to tell Word to change the document it has displayed,
the effect of the change should trigger a screen refresh and be immediately
displayed to the user.
We have several skilled AppleScripters in here who will be along in a moment
to provide more accurate information.
"Office Customisations" is a small part of my business. I code on and for
the PC platform: if the result doesn't work on a Mac, I regard that as
Microsoft's problem, and I let them know of my feelings, quite vigorously!
I am prepared to include compiler directives to compile small sections of
alternative code on the Mac platform, but that's as far as I go. I work
only in VBA. My business is not large enough to maintain two separate code
bases.
Sorry to be no help at all
John
I'm just want to use the basic elements that the developer has in the design
area. Is there any chance that Mac Office will support this as it is part of
the docx specs. Can Applescript code do this change directly in the docx
document and then do a redraw of the document on screen.
The reason is I'm doing a DMS and document automation system that originally
used the merge method and intend to change it over to this functionally
which I had working in Word 2007 and using XAML(silverlight) forms. I'm
mainly aiming at the Mac user market with this version and I'm don't have a
PC any more to do this and can't expect my users to have Word 2007 as they
are Mac only sites.
PeterT
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