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Kim--

re: Using Office X VB tools to drive InDesign

I don't think so--unless they have some way of sending AppleEvents to other applications. InDesign supports the platform standard scripting architecture, which probably isn't VB on the Mac OS.<g> It might be possible, but I think it would probably result in a script that you couldn't use in Windows.

Why don't we try parts of scripts? A few things come to mind immediately:

* In AppleScript, "Set" is always used to assign a value to a variable. In VB, you use "Set" when you're assigning an object value to a variable. If you're assigning non-object variables (e.g., a number or a string), you don't use "Set."

* VB has various looping constructs--which one you use depends on which form of "repeat" AppleScript loop you want to translate. For example:



repeat with myCounter from 1 to 20 
--Do something 
end repeat 




Becomes



For myCounter = 1 to 20 
Rem Do something 
Next 




Thanks,

Ole