On 3/1/04 8:34 AM, "Bryan Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Alternatively, set up this little applescript:
>>
>> Tell app "Microsoft Database Daemon" to quit
>>
>> And save it in the system scripts menu for easy access.
>
> Somehow I never get this far. Since there aren't regular updates, I would
> only tend to want to write a script like this when I have to do an update,
> but just quitting the daemon is easier than writing and testing a script.
>
> But thanks for the tips...
But that's the whole script! There's nothing to write, and nothing to test.
Dozens of us have been using it for years now. Here, in baby steps:
1. Go to /Applications/AppleScript/ and double-click "Install Script Menu"
(Panther) known as "ScriptMenu.menu" in Jaguar. You'll see a black Script
menu at the right of your menu bar, near the Sound Level, Airport, stuff.
2. In the very same /Applications/AppleScript/ folder, double-click Script
Editor.
3. In the open window, paste this:
tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to quit
4. Click "Compile" button, then Save.
5. In the Save window, navigate to /Users/[username]/Library/Scripts/. Name
it "Close Daemon" or whatever you want. Leave the format popup at "Script".
Click Save.
That's it. Now you'll see "Close Daemon" in that black script menu wherever
you are, including when no other Office apps are open. Just select it, and
that's it. It takes half a second. And steps 1-5 above take about a minute.
You don't have a minute? It just took me 3 minutes to type this out, since
I'm a slow typist. So try it for me.
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