Macros for Pages??

Question

I'm new to Mac.  I need to create a "macro" for use in pages that will: go to the beginning of the line then count over 32 characters (and also go to the end of the line and count back 32 characters). I do this hundreds of times per document when creating closed captions.  Can someone help?

Answer 1

Actually, that scriptlet is not right: it goes to the beginning of the *paragraph*, so if you are dealing with more than one line, it one work as expected.  But this, I think. will:
activate application "Pages"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Pages"
  key code 123 using {command down} # go to beginning of line
          repeat 32 times
  key code 124 # move right 32 characters
          end repeat
end tell