Copy Paste Between 2 applications.

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#1

Hi

I’m new to the forum and new to apple scripts.

I have a large catalogue of text in word.

I need to copy paste about 5000 text entries from word into another application called Garagesale.

I don’t want to have to do it manualy. Each entrie in word has to be copied to a different template in Garagesale.

Is there a way with Apple Scripts or Automator to do that?

I really appreciate.

Thanks

Dom

#2

Well, what do you mean by “entry”? Is each entry on a different page? Different document? How are they separated?

Also, I would need to know more about the garagesale App to help you. But as far as copying and pasting goes, you can do:


--Make sure you have "Enable access for assistive devices" checked in "Universal Access" under System Prefs, or this won't work!!!
tell application "System Events"
	keystroke "c" using {command down}
	keystroke "v" using {command down}
end tell

But in order to really I help, I think I need more information.

-SuperScripter

#3

Hi SuperScripter

Each entry will be on the same page.

Each entry contains about 200 lines of HTML and each entry starts with:

HTML here…

and ends with:

Garagesale is done by the company iwascoding.com

In the app menu there is a script menu with these choices:

Open User Scripts Folder
Open Built-In Scripts Folder

and also some scripts like:

Change Text of Item Description
Find Replace Description Text
and some others.

The entries will come from the app Text instead of Word.

Thanks

Zen

#4

And are all of the entries in the same document, or different ones?

Do you want the whole header/footer of the HTML code to be part of the copy/paste, or just the stuff between the start and end tags?

I’ll look into GarageSale if I have the time.

-SuperScripter

#5

Hi SuperScripter

I would need the header/footer and the html.

All the entries are in the same document.

Wow! That would help me so much.

Thanks a lot

Zen :slight_smile:

#6

Hi

I come to think about it and it would also be ok if each entries would be copied in an application i have called CopyPaste Pro. It’s like a giant clipboard.

That would do it for me.

From that giant clipboard i would then paste manualy in Garagesale which would be not to bad.

There’s also a text app that comes with CopyPaste Pro called Bean.