How to Populate Pages file from Excel Worksheet using Applescript - macos

Question

I'm trying to populate a template from data in an Excel spreadsheet. This is my first foray into Applescript. My plan is to have unique text strings in the template (i.e. Value_1, Value_2, etc) then store each value in a variable and find and replace each variable with each string.
I would very much appreciate any help; here is where I'm at:
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
tell active workbook
activate object worksheet "Page 2"
copy range range "B7" of active sheet
// Store as variable?
end tell
end tell
tell application "Pages"
activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "v" using command down
// Find and replace?
end tell
end tell

Answer 1

Something like this will do what you want :
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
tell active workbook
activate object worksheet "Sheet2"
set B7_Value to string value of range "B7" of active sheet
end tell
end tell
tell application "Pages"
set my_text to first document's body text
set temp to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of my_text & " | sed -e 's/B7_Value/" & B7_Value & "/g'"
set first document's body text to temp
end tell
This script does not keep formatting. If you want to keep formatting perhaps something like this :
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
tell active workbook
activate object worksheet "Sheet2"
set B7_Value to string value of range "B7" of active sheet
end tell
end tell
tell application "Pages"
activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "f" using command down
set the clipboard to "B7_Value"
keystroke "v" using command down
delay 0.1
keystroke tab
delay 0.1
set the clipboard to B7_Value
keystroke "v" using command down
delay 0.1
keystroke tab
delay 0.1
keystroke space
delay 0.1
key code 53 -- escape
end tell
end tell
For this to work you will need to enable System Preferences --> Keyboard --> All controls.