Introduction. The Promise of AppleScript.

Installing the Companion Disk Software

PART I. Getting Started with AppleScript
    Chapter 1. The Many Flavors of AppleScript
    Chapter 2. How to Learn AppleScript
    Chapter 3. Your First AppleScript Script

PART II. The AppleScript Language
    Chapter 4. Writing AppleScript Scripts--An Overview
    Chapter 5. Crash Course in Programming Fundamentals
    Chapter 6. Issuing Commands and Getting Results
    Chapter 7. Scripting Addition Commands and Dictionaries
    Chapter 8. Describing Objects--References and Properties
    Chapter 9. Working with Data--alues, Variables, and Expressions
    Chapter 10. Going With the Flow (or Not)--Control Structures
    Chapter 11. AppleScript Operators
    Chapter 12. Error Checking in Scripts
    Chapter 13. Debugging Scripts
    Chapter 14. Using Subroutines, Handlers, and Script Libraries
    Chapter 15. Script Properties, Objects, and Agents

PART III. Putting AppleScript to Work
    Chapter 16. Scripting Finder Operations with FinderLib
    Chapter 17. Scripting Finder the Scriptable Finder
    Chapter 18. Scripting Scriptable Text Editor
    Chapter 19. Scripting TableServer
    Chapter 20. Integrating Applications

PART IV. Third-Party Scriptable Applications
    Chapter 21. Scripting Third-Party Applications
    Chapter 22. FileMaker Pro
    Chapter 23. Microsoft Excel
    Chapter 24. Microsoft Word
    Chapter 25. WordPerfect
    Chapter 26. MacWrite Pro
    Chapter 27. TouchBase Pro
    Chapter 28. HyperCard
    Chapter 29. QuarkXPress
    Chapter 30. Getting Help With Application Scripting

PART V. Essential AppleScript Add-Ons
    Chapter 31. Building User Interfaces for Scripts
    Chapter 32. Third-Party Scripting Tools
    Chapter 33. Third-Party Scripting Additions

Appendix A. Quick Reference

Index