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I'm not sure if this is do-able via AppleScript and/or Automator…but I'd like to be able to: a) launch an application (I know this can be done pretty easily by AppleScript or Automator) b) once the application is launched, use AppleScript or Automator to select specific menu items. e.g. I'd like to launch Excel 2008 (I have the home/student edition which doesn't come preconfigured for Automator) and then click the "File" menu and click on "open". Any pointers on where to go/look for how to select menu items like this (or if it's even possible at all)? You can "sort of" do this using Automator

I have an Automator workflow to ping a server, and download the latest copy of a schedule that I frequently use. This schedule then is copied to my dropbox so I can view it on my phone. Before the workflow downloads the newest schedule it deletes the old schedule from dropbox. This works well, except when I don't have an active internet connection. When I don't have an active internet connection, the workflow will still open up dropbox, delete the old schedule, and try to download the newest one. Because there is no connection, it doesn't download anything. Then if my connection becomes active

I'm trying to create a Service using Automator that simply calls textutil convert. Eventually, I want to be able to right-click a docx file and convert to text, rtf, html, etc. After I right-click I want a very simple popup asking for the desired format. I see the Choose from List action. It has no options. Somewhere I got the idea to make the input of Choose from List be Get Specified Text. I then tried putting my list of values in Get Specified Text. However, when I run it, I only get one line. I've tried one item per line, comma-delimited, space-delimited and even surrounding with curly

I'm new to AppleScript, but I am trying to create a script that will go through all PDFs in a folder extracting the pages into separate files. My plan is to use a combination of Automator and AppleScript. My AppleScript so far is: tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro" open theFile set numPages to (count active doc each page) --execute the extraction here end tell The command in Acrobat Pro is under Options > Extract Pages... , where I can specify the page range and to extract to separate files. However, I can't seem to find a way to do this with the Acrobat Pro Dictionary in AppleScript. There

I'm using a Mac, OSX 10.6 and I have a function in a desktop application that I want to automate. Manually I press Command+R wait for the application to read some data form a physical device for 1 minute, then press command+R again to take another reading (at this point it asks me if I want to save the data, so I press tab, tab and then space bar to select to save the data. I do this 3 times in total, so I want to automate the 3 times, so I can walk away from the computer and it will read 3 times automatically. Is automator the best way to do this? I've tried to do this already in automator by

The title is what I'm trying to achieve. In Automator, I've tried to simply record the actions of opening a new desktop, and then opening the apps in it -- but I get the The action 'Watch Me Do' encountered an error. Check the actionʼs properties and try running the workflow again Furthermore, if I do it in this way, the action that is recorded is "Click the Desktop 4 button". Similarly, I googled and found Applescripts that create specific Desktops (e.g. Desktop 3) but I always have a different amount of Desktops open. So I want the Workflow to simply make a new Desktop regardless of the

Is there an easy way to use Automator on OS X to replace spaces in filenames with underscores? I've set up a service called "Rename Items…" that can be run by selecting any item (or batch of items) in the Finder, right clicking, and then selecting Services > Rename Items… This is useful as it will provide a small popup window when you perform the action, where you can choose whatever settings you want (for example, you can make the sequence sequential, replace text, add text, etc.) In order to create something similar for yourself: launch Automator when prompted, choose the "Service" template.