Converting multiple word documents to pdf

#Converting multiple word documents to pdf pdf

Tell application '/Applications/Microsoft Word.app' to set theOldDefaultPath to get default file path file path type documents path Here be the script, in case anyone else would find this useful: on open of theFiles This page saw Daniel Grau pop up a droplet originally written by John Welch - it didnвЂ™t work initially, but I managed to tweak it slightly, and itвЂ™s working as it should now. That said, IвЂ™m happy to report that I managed to figure something out. I had managed to set up a macro that is invoked using BTT (or even a trigger word spoken through Dragon), which does what is needed. Would appreciate someone confirming if thatвЂ™s it - in which case (assuming the latter), IвЂ™ll duly head off to the ether, to see if I can find something that has already been pieced together (that actually works - seems the few readily available worked in Mavericks, but not later than that.)ДЄppreciate the reply, Peter, pleased I wasnвЂ™t missing something obvious. Is that about the gist of it? Or am I missing something else that might be of use inside KM?

#Converting multiple word documents to pdf pdf

KM could help speeding up things by eitherДЄ.) running a series of steps in a macro that would do all the clicking for you, through the various windows/sub-menuвЂ™s of opening in Word, saving/exporting as PDF Д«.) Go with AppleScript(?) or something similar (Command line/Terminal) to have all of that run in the background, so to speak, without anything opening directly? What I just want to check, is the following: Similarly, thousands of Apps in the MAS to batch-convert from PDF to Word, but not so much for the other way around I was full of confidence that this would be a quick one-two using Automator, but from what IвЂ™ve managed to find out - MS Word on the Mac & Automator are no longer on speaking terms, with the option to Convert Format of Word Document now seemingly missing from Automator. WeвЂ™re currently looking at having to upload thousands of files into a local server site (Sharepoint), for sharing amongst colleaguesвЂ¦ In my situation, I вЂonlyвЂ™ have a few hundred that fall under my domainвЂ¦