WD6X: AppleScript Example: Count Command

 Last reviewed: November 17, 1997
Article ID: Q125581
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, version 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a

SUMMARY

The information in this article discusses the following AppleScript event: 

   Count
This event is found in the Core Suite of Word's Event Dictionary.

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MORE INFORMATION

The Core Suite contains events that an application should support to facilitate easy, intuitive communications between the application and the system software. System 7.0 was the first operating system to support these events.

The Count command is used to count the number of objects (words, paragraphs, and so on) in a document. The result is displayed as an integer in "the result" window of AppleScript. 

   Count 'something' [Each] 'type'

      The Each argument tells the Count command what to count, as in
      --Count each word-- or --Count each paragraph--.

Example

The following AppleScript script examples shows two scripts that use the Count command to count the number of words in a document. These scripts do the following:

  1. Open the document named "MyWordFile."

  2. Count the number of words in the document. 

          tell application "Microsoft Word"

             open "MyWordFile"
         Count words in window 1
      end tell

      tell application "Microsoft Word"
         open "MyWordFile"
         Count each word in window 1
      end tell

    

	    
	

	















	






Additional query words:  Apple Script 

Keywords          : kbmacroexample macword word6 kb3rdparty kb3rdparty

Version           : MACINTOSH:6.0,6.0.1,6.0.1a

Platform          : MACINTOSH

Issue type        : kbinfo








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