WD6X: AppleScript Example: Count Command

The information in this article discusses the following AppleScript event: This event is found in the Core Suite of Word's Event Dictionary.

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The Core Suite contains events that an application should support to facilitate easy, intuitive communications between the application and the system software. System 7.0 was the first operating system to support these events.

The Count command is used to count the number of objects (words, paragraphs, and so on) in a document. The result is displayed as an integer in "the result" window of AppleScript.

Example

The following AppleScript script examples shows two scripts that use the Count command to count the number of words in a document. These scripts do the following:

1. Open the document named "MyWordFile."
2. Count the number of words in the document.

         tell application "Microsoft Word"
            open "MyWordFile"
            Count words in window 1
         end tell
   
         tell application "Microsoft Word"
            open "MyWordFile"
            Count each word in window 1
         end tell