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jarredm007
PostPosted: March 9th, 2010, 7:47 am 
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Hello, I am trying to automate creating a word document that is named "2010-03-08 - Doe John.doc". Then it will open that document and input a template of text. I have this so far, but after inputbox comes up, the explorer folder I am in changes behind the text box to the desktop in an explorer window; so the file created is put on the desktop. I need it to be created in the folder I start the script in.

Here is what I have:
Code:
:*:snn ::
InputBox, UserInput, Client Name, Please enter the Business Name or Client Name., , 340, 180
Send {Alt Down}{f}{Alt Up}
Send W
Send M
Send {Enter}
FormatTime, MyTime,,yyyy-MM-dd
sendInput %MyTime% - .doc
Send {Left}{Left}{Left}{Left}
SendInput %UserInput%
Send {Enter}
Sleep, 1000
Send {Enter}
Sleep, 5000
sendInput ___________________________________________________
send {enter}
FormatTime, TimeString
sendInput Service Notes started today at %TimeString% for %UserInput%.
send {space}
send {enter}
sendInput ___________________________________________________
send {enter}
Return ;Exit


Also, I'm very new; so any major changess or comlete re-write is will not hurt my feelings. Thanks for all your help!


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PostPosted: March 9th, 2010, 9:22 am 
Regardless that Desktop is used as the default file destination it's possible to set a path at the edit field of the an SaveAs dialog and it should save the file at your favorite target destination.

Another option (AFAIK) is to change the registry to open a dialog with another default destination. But that might be over the top here.


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Prolly not newbie friendly, but here's an example using COM ( AHKL & COM_L ):
Code:
:*:snn ::
InputBox, UserInput, Client Name, Please enter the Business Name or Client Name., , 340, 180
FormatTime, MyTime,,yyyy-MM-dd
oWord := COM_CreateObject( "Word.Application" )
oWord.Visible := True
oDoc := oWord.Documents.Add()
oDoc.SaveAs( A_ScriptDir "\" MyTime ".doc" )
FormatTime, TimeString
text :=   "___________________________________________________`n"
      .   "Service Notes started today at " TimeString " for " UserInput ". `n"
      .   "___________________________________________________`n"
oWord.Selection.TypeText( text )
Return ;Exit

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PostPosted: March 9th, 2010, 7:56 pm 
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More newbie friendly:
Code:
inputbox, fn
text =
(
This is a template
...
...
end
)
fileappend, %text%, %a_scriptdir%\%fn%.doc
run, %a_scriptdir%\%fn%.doc

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PostPosted: March 9th, 2010, 8:05 pm 
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flyingDman wrote:
More newbie friendly...


This causes a string of the same error message for me, even though it eventually opens the doc:

Error message wrote:
Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc

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Works for me on Vista and Office 2007. BTW iIt does not work with Excel if a CSV extension is used.
Any luck with a "sleep" between the fileappend and the run?

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PostPosted: March 9th, 2010, 8:13 pm 
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@sinkfaze:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/ne ... &sloc=&p=1

and

http://blogs.technet.com/wordonenotesup ... files.aspx

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Unfortunately editing the registry is not an option for me. Nonetheless, it opens the doc eventually but the potential for error messages isn't very friendly.

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Yet another Microsoft quirk ...

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