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CLIPPER - A macro that copies or moves material from one or more open documents to a separate document

Download CLIPPER.ZIP (version 1.13; 10/18/07; 17,349 bytes)

Compatible with WP versions 8,9,10,11,12,X3

WordPerfect 11 users: See important information about using macros in the first release of WP11 (11.0.0.233) at the top of this page.

Downloading, Documentation, Modifications, and Support

v1.13 - New option to add redline to user-selected text in the original document. New option to remove existing redline attributes. Other minor improvements.

Purpose

This macro lets you to select material (with your mouse or keyboard) in the current document (or any open document) and automatically clip (i.e., copy or move) it to a separate temporary document with a mouse click, then return you back to the original document.

Features

• A small pop-up dialog remains on screen until dismissed, to allow multiple clips.
• You can have up to eight (8) open documents on screen from which to clip material; the macro will use the separate document to hold all your clips in one place.
• Clipped material is appended to previous selections (i.e., in sequential order), separated with hard returns or dashes.

Menu options let you

• (1) copy or move the selected materials to the new document;
• (2) add redline attributes to the original selections in the current document;
• (3) remove all existing redline attributes from the current document (only);
• (4) clip material as unformatted ("plain") text or clip material with all format attributes (bold, italic, etc.) and any graphics;
• (5) separate the clipped materials with either one hard return, two hard returns, or a short dashed line; and
• (6) set a preferred on-screen position for the small pop-up dialog box (the COPY/MOVE "clipper tool").

Notes

The macro will work only in body text, comments, headers/footers, and footnotes/endnotes. If you try to select text inside a text box, for example, the macro will display an error message and then quit.

Tips

• You can also play the macro at a later time to remove all redline attributes from a document that you might have added with option #2 above or that you might have added by the usual methods (e.g., Format, Font, Redline): Simply enable the checkbox, "Remove existing redline codes," play the macro, then exit from the macro. This merely does the same thing as using Find and Replace to remove all [Redln] codes in the document.
• Menu default choices can be set at the top of the macro code in the redlined User Modification Area of the macro code.
• WordPerfect has a built-in feature, Edit>Append, that can append sequential selections of copied text to previous selections on the Windows clipboard. Simply copy the first selection with the usual Edit>Copy (or <Ctrl+C>) and then make subsequent copies with Edit>Append. When you paste the material in another location or another document, the clips will be pasted together as one.
  • Unlike Clipper, however, the Edit>Append feature doesn't let you separate the clips, or move them (cut-and-paste) out of one document and into another (you have to delete the original selections).
  • Note that the Edit>Append feature can be assigned to a keystroke combination such as <Alt+C>. See here.

Most of this macro is based on code used in the author's UNIQUE.WCM macro, which creates a separate file of all unique words in a document for eventual use in indexing that document.