MS Word Macros: PC/OSX

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bowjest

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Hello to all,

A friend has recently helped reformat an invoice template for me in Word so that it automatically generates an incremental invoice number and has a drop down box for customer address and other info.

The problem is, he uses a PC and I have a Mac and I'm having some problems setting it up:

"This will work in Word for Windows. If you double click it, it creates a new document and populates the Invoice Number. It also asks for the customer name and address and fills them in. The way I have done it, it uses a macro, so you will have to enable macros for it to work. The trouble is that it needs to save the last used number somewhere so that it can pick it up for the next invoice. I used a file called c:\settings for this, but that may not work on the Mac. If you want to see the macro, press Alt F11 in Windows (not sure what you press on the Mac)."

Can someone help me realise the above? So far I've not been able to find a solution via Google.

Thanks,

Bowjest
 
I take it from the lack of replies that it's not possible to script macros in the Mac version of Office.

Is this correct?

Bowjest
 
Not if you have Office for Mac 2008, which does not have support for macros.
Should work with Office 2004, and should work again when MS releases the new version (2010/11?). At least, MS said that will be supported in the next version again.
 
Thanks, DeltaMac.

I've got 2008, so will have to come up with something else.

Can anyone suggest a way of getting the above done? I really don't want to have to make a note or "sticky" with the last invoice number used and proceed from there. I can see that going wrong in a big way.

Thanks,

Bowjest
 
MisterMe,

I'm not very familiar with AppleScript. I've done a Google search to try to find some related examples, but nothing so far. Can you advise further?

Many thanks,

Bowjest
 
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