Find specific word in MS Word, copy containing paragraph, paste to Excel
Hi, I'm a complete newbie to programming and scripting, and I searched a bunch of forums for this question and found something similar, but never the full answer neither for automator nor Applescript.
Please help me do this kind of operation.
1.Search a 200-page MS Word document for a specific word.
2.Select the whole paragraph containing the word and copy it to clipboard.
3.Paste this paragraph to Excel document(the next cell in the column)
Basically, I need to analyze the mood of the paragraph with mentioned word in a massive of irrelevant info. And I want to get a nice column in Excel so I could filter all the useless information.
Please help me create this script and/or give me some links where I can read something similar.
Thanks in advance.
Hello, I'm also a total newbie to scripting (started about a week ago).
I tried to work out how to do what you asked using my very limited knowledge and managed to create a script that it very long and clumsy and only works half the time. I'm not certain it does exactly what you want either..
set x to text returned of (display dialog "What word would you like to search for?" default answer "")
tell application "Microsoft Word"
activate
tell application "System Events"
set CR to ASCII character of 13
keystroke "f" using command down
keystroke x & CR
delay 1
keystroke "w" using command down
delay 1
key code 126 using {command down, shift down}
delay 1
keystroke "c" using command down
delay 1
end tell
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "n" using command down
keystroke "v" using command down
tell application "Microsoft Word"
activate
tell application "System Events"
key code 125 using {command down, shift down}
delay 1
keystroke "c" using command down
end tell
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "v" using command down
keystroke "a" using command down
keystroke "c" using command down
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
activate
delay 3
tell application "System Events"
set CR to ASCII character of 13
keystroke "v" using command down
CR
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
Haha I doubt that helps but I felt like trying anyway...
Other stuff:
When the dialog box comes up at the beginning, for some reason it wont run the script properly if you press enter so you have to actually click continue.
Also I made it copy to TextEdit instead of clipboard as I cant seem to find that on my computer.
I hope someone with more knowledge than me comes along soon!
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