Dock Area and Office 2004 Apps Icons

Question

Does anyone knows is it possible to add to the OS X doc area an icon and function that will instead of having individual app icons for MS Office 2004 app just one icon that will give you a menu to choose a particular application within office 2004 suite. This would save me some space within the doc area.
Any tip is highly appreciated!

Answer 1

Open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and enter the following:
choose from list {"Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Excel"} with prompt "Which application do you want?"
set the_app to item 1 of the result
tell application the_app
run
end tell
The actual names of the applications need to be placed inside quote marks in line 1. To add additional applications, add a name inside quote marks, and put a comma between the list items. Save it as an application and place it in the Dock.
Once an application has been opened, that application's icon will appear as well as the script's.
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