Gary, I”m trying to do the same thing the following applescript does only using javascript. I’ve tried hard and I think come close but just don’t seem to be able to come up with the right javascript code to do it. I can get the format using .format() at the end of a line that identifies the cell but have had no success in changing the format. I think I’ve encountered almost every error code that Script Editor has to offer so listing the error codes is probably not helpful.
use AppleScript version “2.4” — Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions
tell application “Numbers”
tell table 1 of sheet 1 of document 1
set selection range to range “J29:J29”
set format of selection range to currency
end tell
end tell
mac OS High Sierra
version 10.13.3
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)
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Dana Stevens
I played around for a few minutes and it seems pretty straight-forward. Something like this:
var Numbers = Application("Numbers"); var table = Numbers.documents[0].sheets[0].tables[0]; var r = table.ranges['A1:B2']; r.format = "currency";But I'm using Catalina with the latest version of Numbers. Not sure if it will work for you back in High Sierra.
Gary,
Thank you. The reply was very helpful and shows that I was on the right track but apparently my old iMac (or software) can't cut it, or I have something set preventing it from doing the job. I received "Script Error: Error on line 4: Error: Invalid cell format." and "Result: Error -10000: AppleEvent handler failed." However, I was able to get and set other properties. Cell properties listed as "inherited from range" in the dictionary work fine, others do not. I can work as is.
Just in case it is useful to someone. I had the same error experience trying to set the format property of a range of cells in a Numbers spreadsheet using Javascript on my wife's MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) running 10.14.5 Mojave and using Numbers 6.1. Someday I hope to have an up to date system to use but it could take awhile before that happens.