WD: AppleScript Example: Data Size Command

 Last reviewed: February 3, 1998
Article ID: Q125583
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, version 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a
  • Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

The information in this article discusses the following AppleScript event: 

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

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The Core Suite contains events that a program 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 Data Size command is used to get the size, in bytes, of an object. The result is displayed as an integer in "the result" window of AppleScript. 

   Data Size of 'something' [as 'type']

      The As argument tells the Data Size command which data type to
      calculate the size for.

      The seven basic data types in AppleScript:

         Strings
         Numbers
         Integers
         Real Numbers
         Booleans
         Lists
         Records
NOTE: The Data Size command cannot use some of the data types listed above. The valid data types for the Data Size command are: 

         Strings
         Real Numbers
         Lists

Example

The following AppleScript script sample gets the data size, in bytes, of the selected object. This script does the following:

  1. Opens the document named "MyWordFile".

  2. Selects the first paragraph in the document.

  3. Uses the Data Size command to get the size, in bytes, of the selected object.

tell application "Microsoft Word" 
   open "MyWordFile"
   set selection to paragraph 1
   data size of selection as string
end tell

Additional query words: Apple Script datasize
Keywords : kbmacroexample macword word6 kb3rdparty kbcode kbmacro kbprg
Version : MACINTOSH:6.0,6.0.1,6.0.1a
Platform : MACINTOSH
Issue type : kbinfo

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Last reviewed: February 3, 1998
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