Creating a TextEdit rtf file

Here is what I want to do with Automator:
Create a new textEdit rtf document
Be prompted to name the file
Once I name the file I want the file to open in Textedit ready for me to work on
The document I create as to have two different formats. For example, the first line bold italic, and the rest of the document, plain text.
Is this possible using Automator?

Hi there Randy,
try this...
1) New Text Edit Document
2) Run AppleScript
Replace the code with this...
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">on run {input, parameters}
activate application "TextEdit"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "TextEdit"
keystroke "b" using command down
keystroke "Bold Headline"
keystroke "b" using command down
keystroke return
keystroke "s" using {command down, shift down}
end tell
end tell
return input
end run</pre>
You will need to turn on GUI Scripting for this to work...
regards
Ric

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Message was edited by: eightyfiveonions
Message was edited by: eightyfiveonions

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