Paying Project to Convert Word Macros to Apple Script

[wordseditor]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

Hello,

I use twenty-four Word 2004 macros for my editing projects, and want to move them into Word 2008, which would mean converting them into Apple Script. Is this a project anyone would undertake? What sort of cost might it entail?

Thanks,

John

 

[John McGhie]

Hi John:

The answer depends entirely on how complex the macros are. The kind of
macros that I write would take about a day each to convert, so that would
work out to be around $14,400.00 for an experienced developer at standard
industry rates,

Figure on about half that if the macros are simple and/or the developer is
really good.

On the other hand, the next version of Microsoft Office will be available
next year, hopefully "early" next year, and it will run your existing macros
unchanged.

Your call

Cheers

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

Hello,

I use twenty-four Word 2004 macros for my editing projects, and want to move
them into Word 2008, which would mean converting them into Apple Script. Is
this a project anyone would undertake? What sort of cost might it entail?

Thanks,

John

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

On the other hand, the next version of Microsoft Office will be available
next year, hopefully "early" next year, and it will run your existing macros
unchanged.

Your call

Cheers

Hi John,

Published reports suggest around December, 2010 is the target for the
next version of Office for Mac, and that it's a target - not a promise.

-Jim

 

[John McGhie]

Thanks Jim:

I was "hoping". OK, December 2010...

Still, 14 grand is a lot to pay rather than wait a year...

Cheers

Hi John,

Published reports suggest around December, 2010 is the target for the
next version of Office for Mac, and that it's a target - not a promise.

-Jim

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

--

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Clive Huggan]

Or you can use Word 2004 for next to nothing...

CH
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[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Surely your Joking! If so I'll just stick with Word 04 an 08.

Bedsides I got to come up about 3 K to either get a Desktop or Laptop
first.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Phillip:

No, you have misread the post.

What I am saying is that the original poster may want to wait for the next
version of Office. Then he will not have to pay to have his macros
converted to AppleScript. Because VBA is back in the next version.

What Clive is saying is that if he were to install a copy of Office 2004, he
could use his macros now. Just: not in 2008.

Now hurry up and win the Lottery and stop your complaining

Cheers

Surely your Joking! If so I'll just stick with Word 04 an 08.

Bedsides I got to come up about 3 K to either get a Desktop or Laptop
first.

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

--

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

I'll you my savings to get one or the other. then get the other the next
year.

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Supposed to be "I'll use my savings to get one or the other. ....