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3: Converting Numbers Sheets to Keynote Graphs with Sal Soghoian

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Applescript Commands - How to Control a Mac OS X Application

With applescript, it's very conversational. You take a set of verbs and you match them with the objects and properties. And in this case, in the english language, we use the word front all the time. If there's a row of people lining up, you can say, well, the first person, or the front person, the person at the front, please come forward. Every application that is scriptil or will respond to appl events, carries an internal dictionary that you can view. It tells you, these are my mands. These are what i understand. These are my objects, like a document or a slide or a text box or an image. The great

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