Appleworks Spreadsheet Character Limit

Is there anyway to get around the 256 character limit in each of the cells in Appleworks spreadsheet?

No.
But if you need to put more than 255 characters in a box, perhaps the spreadsheet is not the right tool. Have you considered using a database document? The DB can hold about a thousand characters in a field.
Regards,
Barry

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AppleScript & AppleWorks Spreadsheet

For years I have been using AppleWorks spreadsheets on my Quadra (ease-of-use, nostalgia, old habits die hard, etc.). After eventually deciding to transfer some of them to my G5 and work with them (as well as creating new ones) in a newer and faster environment, I started fiddling around with using AppleScript to automate some of the repetitive tasks within each document, especially for the new ones. One task appears to have either no solution or a particularly well-hidden one. Except for the example given here, all the other scripting is working to my satisfaction.
The relevant part of the script is:
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
    activate
    make new document at front with properties {document kind:SS}
    tell spreadsheet of document 1
        select menu item "Display…" of menu "Options"
    end tell
end tell
The line "select menu item "Display…" of menu "Options" brings up a window as pictured here.
I would like to be able to use AppleScript to uncheck the checkboxes labelled "Row Headings" and "Column Headings" so that the whole script (of which this is only a small part), can run without ANY manual intervention. So far, no luck. The arrow keys and tab key (with and without modifier keys) have no effect within this window. If you hold down the command key for a a few seconds, the window displays command-key equivalents for the checkboxes, as pictured here;
Turning on GUI scripting by enabling access for assistive devices in System Preferences and using calls to System Events with various permutations of the "keystroke" command had no effect. To try to discover if the items in the window were actually UI elements and of what type, I used the "get entire contents of window ... " approach, which worked beautifully in the main document window. The calls I used, inserted after the line ""select menu item "Display…" of menu "Options" and before the two "end tell" lines, were:
tell application "System Events"
     tell process "AppleWorks 6"
          get entire contents of window 1          -- each of these four lines,
          get entire contents of window 2          -- and other various similar attempts, was used by itself
          get every item of window 1               -- (all included consecutively here to save space)
          get every UI element of window "Display"
     end tell
end tell
The line "get entire contents of window 1" only took effect once the "Display" window had been dismissed, and then it quite happily returned the contents of the main document window. The others returned either: "System Events got an error: NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4" or "System Events got an error: Can't make every item of window 1 of process "AppleWorks 6" into type reference."
My guess is that the window "Display" is a modal dialog which is not letting anything else happen until it is dismissed. In the script, the next command after "select menu item "Display…" of menu "Options" waits until the window has been dismissed.
I have also tried saving the document (once the row and column headings have been hidden) as a spreadsheet template. That ALMOST achieved what I wanted. The new spreadsheet template shows up in Starting Points as "Spreadsheet" with the previous (pre-defined) template being renamed to "Standard SS". When clicking on the new template in Starting Points, a new SS document opens up with the row and column headings hidden, but when a new SS document is created using AppleScript, it uses the pre-defined template (headings not hidden). So near yet so far!
If anybody has any suggestions, tricks and workarounds for both AppleScript and AppleWorks, I am willing to try them out.
If I can't get this (small) part of the script to work without having to use the mouse or keyboard, then it's not the end of the world. But I do like sitting back and watching the computer do what it is good at - repetitive tasks, etc. - from start to finish.
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While not having found the reason for AppleScript's inability to access the "Display" window, I have worked out a way to achieve what I want. Even though the AppleScript command "make new document at front with properties {document kind:SS}" causes AppleWorks to ignore the customized template document and use the original, pre-defined one, the following routine makes a copy of the customized template document, converts it from a stationery document (template), renames it and opens it.
tell application "Finder"
     set TemplateCopy to duplicate file "AppleWorks SS Options.cws" of folder "Templates" of folder "Starting Points" of folder "AppleWorks 6" of folder "Applications" of startup disk to desktop
     set stationery of TemplateCopy to false
     set NewFileName to "My spreadsheet.cwk"
     set the name of TemplateCopy to NewFileName
     open file NewFileName
end tell
One other approach which might have led somewhere was to explore the ability to prevent row and column headings from printing, even if they are displayed on screen. Scripting the print end of things may not have been easy, if possible at all, and would have required much more complexity in scripting. Also, I would prefer the screen display to match what is going to be printed.
The end result I wanted has been achieved, although using a different approach than I expected. Given the legacy status of AppleWorks 6 and its oddities of behaviour with AppleScript (even though much functionality was added and many bugs fixed from version 5), I doubt that the original approach will ever work, although if anybody has some ideas/knowledge, etc., I am willing to listen.

Scripting printing in AppleWorks
As a spin-off from my efforts described above, I think I have found a way of using AppleScript to save documents from AppleWorks as PDF's. At the moment the script is pretty wordy and maybe not as efficient as it could be, but it works (almost 100% of the time).
In the Print dialog, the tab key can be used to move between the various elements in the dialog. Depending on which one has been arrived at after each press of the tab key, you can select and do various things by using the space key, up and down arrow keys and the return key. I'm not sure if they can all be consistently emulated using the keystroke command from within System Events, as here I have restricted myself to just the tab, down arrow and return keys.
When the Print command is issued (via keystroke "p" using command down), the Print dialog opens up.
On my system, the number of copies is highlighted by default when the Print dialog opens and by pressing the tab key five times the PDF button is selected (although it's not all that obvious). The down arrow then activates the dropdown menu - press it again and the first item in that menu is highlighted. Press Return and that item is accepted and the Save dialog comes up.
On my system it takes one press of the tab key with shift down to move "back" from the Save As text field to the Save button (originally I had been using ten presses of tab in the "forward" direction), at which point Return selects it and the document is saved as a PDF. As with the Print dialog, the arrow keys, space key and Return can all be used to do/select various things along the way.
In the script I have inserted a number of delays to give things time to happen. Originally they were longer and allowed me to observe what was being selected at each emulated press of the tab key. Those that are one second or longer need, at least on my system, to remain fairly long otherwise I get errors such as "connection not valid" and the script hanging to the point where the only way out was to force quit. I would assume that some things are timing-dependent and need a specific amount of time before the next action can be performed. If anybody tries my script and finds odd things happening, I would suggest lengthening the delay times as the first thing to try. Also, on various System versions, there might be a difference in the number of tab presses required to move from the default highlighted attribute to the PDF and Save buttons.
The script as it stands at the moment requires at least one AppleWorks document to be open (and checks for that to avoid an error at the start). It could be modified to be a droplet (and possibly open only one document at a time from those dropped onto it, as AppleWorks would have a limit of how many documents it could have open concurrently), but I will get around to doing that later on.
The script itself:
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
    activate
    set HowManyDocs to count of documents
    if HowManyDocs > 0 then
        set DocNames to name of every document
        repeat with CounterA from 1 to HowManyDocs
            try
                set ThisDoc to (item CounterA of DocNames)
                select document ThisDoc
                tell application "System Events"
                    tell process "AppleWorks 6"
                        keystroke "p" using command down -- brings up Print dialog
                        delay 0.1
                        tell window "Print"
                            delay 1 -- or longer
                            repeat with CounterB from 1 to 5
                                keystroke tab -- tabs through to PDF Button
                                delay 0.1
                            end repeat
                            key code 125 -- down arrow - selects PDF dropdown menu
                            delay 0.1
                            key code 125 -- down arrow - selects first item in PDF dropdown menu
                            delay 0.1
                            keystroke return -- accepts selection and brings up Save dialog
                            delay 1
                            keystroke tab using shift down -- tabs back 1 to Save button
                            delay 0.1
                            keystroke return -- "presses" Save button
                            delay 2 -- or longer
                        end tell
                    end tell
                end tell
            end try
            close document ThisDoc -- closes each document after it is "printed" to PDF
        end repeat
    else
        display dialog "You have no AppleWorks documents open." & return & "Open some and then run this script again."
    end if
end tell

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what i understood is that
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