How do a create a workflow to highlight word documents?

Question

I have 100's of pages of word documents within a single folder all with part of them underlined as demonstrated. I need a way to avoid manually highlighting just the underlined sections and figured the automator is the best option to accomplish this. I dont know how to accomplish this though. Any instructions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

I don't use Automator, but the following Applescript will do it:
set excludedones to {"loginwindow", "Dock", "SystemUIServer", "MirrorAgent", "UniversalAccess", "iCalAlarmScheduler", "System Events"}
tell application "Finder"
set quitlist to the name of every application process whose file type is "APPL"
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to count of quitlist
set aProcess to item i of quitlist
if aProcess is not in excludedones then
try
tell application aProcess to quit
end try
end if
end repeat
tell application "Finder"
shut down
end tell
Actually the last three lines by themselves would probably do it. Of course if any of the applications have open unsaved documents then you will get the usual dialog about do you want to save them.