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Automatically save every untitled (Document###) unsaved open Word doc
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| if application id "com.microsoft.Word" is running then | |
| tell application id "com.microsoft.Word" | |
| set docCount to count of documents | |
| if docCount ≥ 1 then | |
| repeat with i from 1 to docCount | |
| set doc to document i | |
| set docName to name of doc | |
| if docName starts with "Document" then | |
| if docName ends with " AutoSave).docx" then | |
| if saved of doc is false then | |
| save doc | |
| end if | |
| else if docName ends with ".docx" then | |
| -- do nothing, it's just a confusing document name | |
| else if docName does not end with ".docx" then | |
| set currentTimestamp to short date string of (current date) & " " & time string of (current date) | |
| set currentTimestamp to my replaceChars(currentTimestamp, "/", "-") | |
| set currentTimestamp to my replaceChars(currentTimestamp, ":", "-") | |
| set savePath to "/Users/username/Documents/Word autosaves/" & docName & " (" & currentTimestamp & " AutoSave).docx" | |
| save doc in savePath | |
| end if | |
| end if | |
| end repeat | |
| else | |
| -- do nothing, no documents are open | |
| end if | |
| end tell | |
| end if | |
| -- https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/425584 | |
| on replaceChars(thisText, searchString, replacementString) | |
| set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the searchString | |
| set the itemList to text items of thisText | |
| set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacementString | |
| set thisText to the itemList as string | |
| set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "" | |
| return thisText | |
| end replaceChars |
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