Call it "EASY WRITING..." with AppleScript !

Does anyone know if there is a way to edit a post, once you send it to the board. Perhaps to catch a typo, change the title, etc.
I wanted to change :
FROM : AppleScript - Worth Seeing...
TO : Call it "EASY WRITING..." with AppleScript !
But could not find a way to edit my post.
I apologize for re-submitting the same post with a different name.
All,
If you use AppleScript at all, this is pretty slick, compared to anything else I found on the web for writing to files.
Call it "EASY WRITING..." with AppleScript !
http://www.mac-specialist.com/r/asckdirs.html
Best Regards,
Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas

You can edit the post, but only for a short period (15 minutes? 30 minutes?) after you create it.
When you look at the thread there'll be an additional 'Edit' link in the header along with the 'Reply' and 'Email' links. Once the post has been there long enough the Edit link goes away.

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Call it "EASY WRITING..." with AppleScript !
http://www.mac-specialist.com/r/asckdirs.html
Hope some of this is helpful, I only recently started learning AppleScript in a disciplined manner, so I apologize if I am posting too much stuff. If some of this stuff is helpful let me know, if not let me know also. I tend to get excited as I figure out new stuff, and like to share things I've learned...
Best Regards,
Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas

You can edit the post, but only for a short period (15 minutes? 30 minutes?) after you create it.
When you look at the thread there'll be an additional 'Edit' link in the header along with the 'Reply' and 'Email' links. Once the post has been there long enough the Edit link goes away.

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I'm writing a script for Aperture 3.0.3 that
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Message was edited by: Monostratos

Hi,
I'm also interested in a script like that. Have you had any success?
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I have tons of documents open on MSoft Word and wish to close some of them. Luckily, those that I wish to close all start with the word "book", so I was thinking I could actually automate that with AppleScript hence avoid closing them one by one.
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count (document)
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I actually added an additional line (I didn't include the code in that which I pasted here) asking to count the number of documents in Word AFTER the so-called "close", and the number remains 6.
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Hi,
The quickest way to do this (tested with OS 10.8.2, MS Word 2011) is in one line:
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The reason why your script doesn't work is that you aren't specifying to Word which document you want it to close.
So, changing one line ought to do it:
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But... when you close a document, you change the document count. Document 2 becomes document 1, document 3 becomes document 2 etc. So eventually you'd get a message saying "The object you are trying to access doesn't exist".
Because of this, if you want to do it in a repeat loop, you have to work backwards:
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-- Stephen Norum
-- [email protected]
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