Microsoft KB Archive/125583

= WD: AppleScript Example: Data Size Command =

Article ID: 125583

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q125583



SUMMARY
The information in this article discusses the following AppleScript event:

Data Size

This event is found in the Core Suite of Word's Event Dictionary.



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The Core Suite contains events that a program 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 Data Size command is used to get the size, in bytes, of an object. The result is displayed as an integer in "the result" window of AppleScript.

Data Size of 'something' [as 'type']

The As argument tells the Data Size command which data type to calculate the size for.

The seven basic data types in AppleScript:

Strings

Numbers

Integers

Real Numbers

Booleans

Lists

Records

NOTE: The Data Size command cannot use some of the data types listed above. The valid data types for the Data Size command are:

Strings

Real Numbers

Lists

Example
The following AppleScript script sample gets the data size, in bytes, of the selected object. This script does the following:


 * 1) Opens the document named "MyWordFile".
 * 2) Selects the first paragraph in the document.
 * 3) Uses the Data Size command to get the size, in bytes, of the selected object.

tell application "Microsoft Word" open "MyWordFile" set selection to paragraph 1 data size of selection as string end tell

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