Chapter 29. Making Your Mac Do the Work for You with the Automator

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Understanding the Automator

The Automator enables you to automate actions that you repetitively perform on your Mac. You can create a series of steps that Automator will perform for you and then repeat those steps by running the script you create. Automator is extremely powerful because you can use it to automate actions involving many applications at the same time. Although Automator enables complex actions to be performed, its graphical interface makes building complex scripts as easy as drag-and-drop.

Understanding ...

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