Hello
The process of creating tables in Pages is quite click intensive.
I would like to create a macro which would:
ronald,
I think you probably will need AppleScript to do this. The AppleScript could then be called by a KM macro.
Here's an example Pages AppleScript from Stackoverflow.com:
tell application "Pages"
set myDoc to make new document
tell page 1 of myDoc to set myTable to make new table with properties {column count:4, row count:12}
tell cell range of myTable
set width of columns to 120
set text wrap to true
set alignment to center
-- to set value of the headers and some cells
set j to 1
repeat with i in {"Column1", "Column2", "Column3", "Column4", "data cell 1", "data cell 2", "hello", "data cell 4", "moredata", "moredata", "data", "hello"}
set value of cell j to i
set j to j + 1
end repeat
end tell
end tell
To see the other commands and properties of Pages that can be used with AppleScript, open the Pages Dictionary from the Script Editor.
For more info, see AppleScript and Pages
thank you for your answer.
I am a bit confused. As far as I can guess from reading the script:
1- the end result is to specifically create the table below
2- there is no user interface / query asking the number of rows and columns
3- the cells are filled up with useless info (hello, data, etc)
I did more reading based on your references.
I think that the easiest approach is to simply create the table in Numbers (much easier than Pages), and when finished copy paste into a new Pages document.
Once the table is created, it is very click intensive to specify all of the following. Could it be done with KBM+Apple Script?
basically one would highlight the table and run the macro to format it.
ronald,
AFAIK, KM does NOT have any Pages or Numbers specific actions, so you will need to do the following:
I think #1 would be the most reliable and capable.
I don't have the Pages app, and have never used it, so I can't offer any help for using AppleScript with Pages (or Numbers), but there are many examples on the Internet.
Thank you. I understand that you don't use Numbers. I am asking this question in general terms,
Why does the following macro not work. It should center the word testing.
Since I don't have Numbers, I can't test your macro, or even do a manual walk-through. Try starting the debugger (KM Status menu > Start Debugging, and then run your macro, Observe what happens step by step.
dubugging function: that’s exactly what I was looking for. thanks !
Sorry; I am confused. I start the debugger and the macro, and then what do I do? The macro seems to be working in the background.
