Add bibliography in Word document using apple script

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#1

src[iter] = “<b:Source><b:Tag>” + “Value” + iter.ToString() + “</b:Tag><b:SourceType>Book</b:SourceType>”
+ “<b:Guid>” + guid + “</b:Guid><b:LCID>0</b:LCID><b:Author>”
+ “<b:Author><b:NameList><b:Person><b:Last>” + lastname + “</b:Last>”
+ “<b:First>” + firstname + “</b:First></b:Person></b:NameList></b:Author>”
+ "</b:Author><b:Title> " + title
+ “</b:Title><b:Year>” + year + “</b:Year><b:City>” + city + “</b:City>”
+ “<b:Publisher>” + publisher + “</b:Publisher></b:Source>”;

doc.Bibliography.Sources.Add(src[iter])

In windows, there is an option to add bibliography using the property of word document. Is there anything similar in Mac script supported?

#2

Not really sure what you’re trying to do here. Your code looks like it’s trying to add a source.

That said, assuming I understand this at all, you can get the document properties for a word document (e.g. File > Properties…), which I believe correspond to your fields, like so…

tell application "Microsoft Word"	
	
	document properties of document 1
	--> {document property "Title" of document 1 of application "Microsoft Word", document property "Subject" of document 1 of application "Microsoft Word", document property "Author" of document 1 of application "Microsoft Word", document property "Keywords" of document 1 of application "Microsoft Word", …}
	-- For me, this returns a list of 30 properties		
	
	set dpt to document property "Title" of document 1
	properties of dpt
	--> {class:document property, name:"Title", value:"dpTitle", document property type:string, link to content:false, link source:missing value}
	
	value of document property "Title" of document 1
	--> "dpTitle"
	
end tell

The value is what I entered manually into the ‘Title’ field.

If there is vba functionality then you should be able to utilise that as well.

#3

In windows we have a property of document like Bibliography, as in following text doc.Bibliography.Sources.Add(src[iter]), is there anything similar supported in word in MAC.

#4

I don’t think that applescript supports that. But if you have a vba script that solves the problem then you should be able to run that.

#5

Thanks @Mockman kman

#6

Hi @Mockman I would like to know if there is an option to scroll into view a target paragraph of the word document using apple script.
I want to achieve windows version of

document.ScrollIntoView(document.Paragraphs[2].Range)

#7

There doesn’t appear to be any matching functionality for that. You could mimic it by doing something like selecting the paragraph and then UI scripting an arrow key press.