AppleScript makes a comeback in Numbers<article>
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Back in November, I
wrote about the growing concern in the Mac community that Apple might be abandoning AppleScript. The occasion was the virtual removal of AppleScript support from the iWork apps (Keynote, Numbers, and Pages). At the time, I stressed that Mac users should remain calm, that this was nothing new, that the level of AppleScript support in any given app had always ebbed and flowed from release to release.</p><p>
Looks like we’ve just had another ebb and flow.</p><p>
The
latest update of Numbers reintroduces AppleScript support in a big way. While Apple could have taken an iterative approach, reintroducing a few commands here and there, it chose instead to go whole-hog: The entire suite of scripting terminology originally supported by Numbers in the 2009 edition of iWork has returned.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2090831/applescript-makes-a-comeback-in-numbers.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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AppleScript makes a comeback in Numbers
