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Macros, tips, and templates for Corel® WordPerfect® for Windows®
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This macro -- Comment Converter.wcm -- can either

• convert all WordPerfect Comments (created with Insert, Comment, Create) to highlighted text, normal text, hidden text, footnotes, endnotes, or
• copy all Comments to a separate (temporary) document to provide a convenient list of Comments in the original document.

You can then print the document and either undo the change with Edit, Undo, close the document without saving changes, or save it in the usual manner. Other menu options remove all Comments, highlighting, or highlighted text.

You can set menu and other defaults in the macro's User Modification Area (open the macro as you would any WP document, make changes as indicated, and save the macro with the Save & Compile button on the macro toolbar).

See also TXT2CMT, which converts selected text to Comments, which might be useful if you want to create additional Comments before converting or listing them.

Known limitations

• Option 1 on the menu causes the macro to copy the (often large) contents of each comment to a separate document. There have been reports that using so-called "clipboard extenders" -- small Windows programs that store recently used material cut or copied to the Windows clipboard -- can cause problems, especially with documents that have many comments in them.
  • For example, the computer may slow or freeze when this macro is played with these other programs in memory. If this happens, simply disable or temporarily remove the clipboard extender when you need to play the macro.
  • Finally, if your physical memory is full and the Windows swap file is being used constantly, the macro will slow down considerably and may even appear to freeze. (Wait to see if it will resume play.) Rebooting and clearing RAM of other tasks can help.
• Because of a limitation in a macro command [ Close() ], any comments that you may have created inside "substructures" such as text boxes, headers, footnotes, etc., will NOT be processed (i.e., converted or copied). In any case, certain operations would not be possible anyway, such as converting a comment already inside a footnote to a new footnote!