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Bates numbering.wcm is compatible with versions WordPerfect 7 and later
versions
Bates numbering for multi-page
documents.wcm is for WordPerfect 9 and
later versions
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Contains two macros:
Both macros allow inserting additional text
adjacent to the Bates numbers.
Tip:
See also QWIKFILL, which can fill
a table column with Bates numbers.
Bates numbering.wcm
(Compatible with versions WordPerfect 7 and later versions.)
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This macro can -
- create sequential, fixed-width Bates numbers
on blank Avery® label or card stock, or
- stamp the Bates numbers directly on single-page
pre-printed forms, letters or legal documents already in your
printer's tray, or
- include the Bates numbers in an existing
WordPerfect document, which is expanded by the macro to "x"
copies of the original document, with each Bates-numbered once
per document. [See the Tip below.]
Some typical uses
How does it work? The simple secret is that
it uses a special bookmark ("bates#") that either you
place on the first label or page, or you have the macro place
it for you at the current cursor location (for labels, it can
be centered horizontally and vertically). With this technique
you tell the macro exactly where you want the Bates number. It
looks for this bookmark and enters the next Bates number in the
sequence; it then goes on to the next label or page and repeats
the process. (Those interested in writing macros may want to
examine the macro's two nested ForNext() loops that actually
generate the Bates numbers.)
When the macro plays, a menu allows entering
any preceding (leading) text characters, spaces, and returns,
as well as materials that should follow the numbers. For example,
you can produce "Bates numbers" like this:
Client Document # A000123 - Confidential
Since you can enter carriage returns in these
menu text fields (or by checking the HR boxes on the menu), you
can easily produce labels like this:
Item
00000123
The XYZ Corp.
You can specify the number of digits (the
width of the Bates number), the starting and ending numbers,
and the number of copies of each numbered item (which will be
printed adjacent to one another). You can also specifiy relative
font size, and appearance (bold, italic, underlined, and small
caps). The macro then creates Bates numbers with these attributes.
Notes
- If you want to use a Bates number on each
page of a single, multi-page document, use the companion
macro, Bates numbering
for multi-page documents.wcm (see below).
Note that if you play the Bates numbering.wcm macro on a multi-page document, it will place a Bates
number just once on the document (just as it would place
it just once on a completed, filled sheet of labels/cards), and
then make multiple copies of that multi-page document. For example,
if you tell it to Start numbering with "1" and End
numbering with "80" (the default menu choices), you'll
get 80 copies of the same multi-page document, each with
a single, incrementing Bates number on them!
- Instructions are included via the Help and
How buttons on the macro's main menu. Also, the macro code can
be modified in the User
Modification Area to set the opening menu's
defaults or set a different font for the Bates material.
Tips
Need to create a table with custom
Bates numbers in one column and another column for annotations?
Here's how.
- Open a new (blank) document. Play the 'Bates
numbering' macro to create as many numbered pages as you will
need rows in a table. Use the default radio button choice at
the top of the macro's menu, and answer 'yes' to the pop up message
('Oops...') about creating a bookmark. You should now have a
document with as many pages as numbers.
- Open Reveal Codes and delete the [Bookmark]
code from the top of the document (it is not needed).
- You will now replace all hard page breaks
with hard returns. Click Edit, Find and Replace, Match, Codes.
In the Codes dialog that pops up, choose the [HPg] code to Insert
in the 'Find' field, and the [HRt] code to Insert in the 'Replace
with' field. Close the Codes dialog, and click Replace All in
the Find and Replace dialog. Click OK to return to the document,
which should now contain a single column of Bates numbers, each
separated by a hard return code [HRt].
- Convert the column of numbers to a table.
Click Edit, Select, All to select the column of numbers. Then
(in WordPerfect 10+) click -either- Table, Create, OK -or- Table,
Convert. For 'Format' choose 'Size column to fit' and for Text
Delimters, choose 'Paragraph.' Click OK. You should now have
a one-column table with as many rows as you have Bates numbers.
- Place the cursor in the table, and right-click
it. Choose Insert from the context menu that pops up, then click
the 'Columns' and 'After' radio buttons. If you set Columns to
'1' you will create a table with an empty column to the right
of the Bates numbers column. Drag the right-hand table border
to size the column to your needs.
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Bates numbering
for multi-page documents.wcm (Compatible with WordPerfect 9 and
later versions.)
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This macro creates sequential, fixed-width
Bates numbers (e.g., 0001, 0002) on each page of an existing
multi-page document (or filled Avery® label/card sheet),
in any one of 12 locations around the perimeter of the pages.
The numbers are inserted in a full-page text box inside a watermark
created on each page (or label/card).
When played, the macro creates a copy of the
document in a separate window, so that processing will not affect
the original. This is the default, but you can change it in the
menu. Other menu selections provide for inserting text adjacent
to the Bates numbers, similar to the Bates numbering macro described
above.
Modifications to default menu (and other)
values can be set in the macro's User Modification Area.
[Note: Multiple text boxes on the main document
page level are problematic in complex documents; hence, text
boxes inside watermarks are used instead.]
Instructions
The macro can be played on any normal document,
or on a filled sheet of labels/cards. [The latter must already
be expanded on screen to show several (or all) labels/cards on
the physical sheet of paper stock, not just the first one.
To use Bates numbers on a single, "master" label/card
and have the remaining labels/cards created automatically, you
should use the companion macro, Bates numbering.wcm.]
Tips
Modifications to default menu (and other)
values can be set in the User Modification Area. For example,
you can set
- a new font type for each section of the Bates
material (text and numbering); this might be useful if the text
or Bates number is a bar code font, or you simply want to change
the appearance of optional text, perhaps because it is on a separate
line from the Bates number
- default menu values for (optional) text that
should precede or follow the Bates number
- This macro can be used to create a second
page numbering system on the same pages, typically for a different
page number sequence than that used by the WordPerfect page numbering
system. Since the macro works by typing an incremented number
into the document on each page, it does not depend on the built-in
page numbering system.
- If you do not want to use leading
zeros you can simply "comment out" the command Type("0") at
about line 397 in the macro's code by placing two slash marks
(//) in front of it. This command is in the section entitled
"Create the Bates number for the current page." Then
click the Options button on the macro toolbar and save the macro
under a different name so that you can have both versions handy.
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