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Macros, tips, and templates for Corel® WordPerfect® for Windows®
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Download COLSRCHR.ZIP (Rev. 02/24/06; 16,703 bytes)

Compatible with WordPerfect 9 and later versions

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Contains two macros:

Column searcher.wcm (v1.01) - A macro that finds text or symbols in just the current column of a table -- it will skip searching any other columns. You can also replace any items found.

Tips etc.

You can force the macro to start searching at the top of a specific column by replacing the PosTableColumnTop command at about line 46 with, for example, PosTableCell ("B1"). The latter command would force the macro to search the second column of the current table. (Macros can be opened like any other WordPerfect document. Make your changes and click the Save & Compile button on the macro toolbar.

The code or technique may be useful in other macros.

Column search - color rows.wcm (v1.0) - Based on code in the above macro, this macro finds user-specified text in just the current column of a WordPerfect table (it will skip searching any other column). It then colors any row that contains the item specified in a pop-up dialog with a specified color "fill".

See the redlined User Modification Area at the top of the macro's code to set your preferences. (Macros can be opened like any other WordPerfect document. Make your changes and click the Save & Compile button on the macro toolbar.

Tips etc.

You can make several copies of this macro, each with a slightly different name and different default values for color, etc. See the User Modification Area.

You can redact (i.e., black out) rows for printing purposes (the underlying data is unaffected) by setting all three RGB color values to 0 (zero) and the shade to 100 percent, in the User Modification Area.

A macro posted by Roy "lemoto" Lewis on WordPerfect Universe removes any row which does not contain a specified string of characters (here, for example, the string is "DAB"). Perhaps the code will be useful to use as a starting point for similar tasks.

BE SURE to also indicate the specific table and cell in your own document in the PosTableCell() command below, which is set (for this example) for Table C, Cell C1.

Application(wp;"WordPerfect";Default!)

vCheckText = "DAB"

PosTableCell("Table C.C1")
While(NOT ?TableLastCell)
SelectWord
RowOut
PosTableCellDown ()
EndWhile
SelectWord

RowOut:
If(StrPos(?SelectedText; vCheckText) =0)
TableDeleteRow
PosTableCellUp
EndIf
SelectMode(Off!)
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