[X4U] Apple script and numbering

Jerry Krinock jerry at ieee.org
Thu Mar 31 20:32:51 PST 2005


on 05/03/29 05:53, Bill White at billwhite at mac.com wrote:

> On 3/28/05 9:40 PM, Jerry Krinock <jerry at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>> on 05/03/26 05:56, FC Farwell at frankfarwell at mac.com wrote:
>> 
>>> How would one write an apple script for AppleWorks that will find numbers,
>>> starting with a certain number let's say 10 for example in a pages of text
>>> and raise each one it finds to the next highest number?
>>> 
>> If this is possible, I would say it would take an AppleScript expert at least
>> an hour to get this running and debugged.
> 
> LOL! While it may take some time to debug it,

Maybe 57 minutes?

> the following took me exactly
> three minutes to write.... Or are you trying to replace all 10s with 11s, 11s
with 12s, etc? Is would be simple to modify to do that.

I assumed he was.

> It would be simple to modify to do that.

Bill, I shall admit that you are much smarter at AppleScript than I am.  Go
for it!!

Jerry




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