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Contains 5 macros:
HiLiteDoc.wcm (v1.7)
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Highlight words or short phrases (63 characters
or fewer) in a document based on a master list of words contained
in a separate document or entered via a pop up menu. (New in
version 1.4: An option on the first menu allows choosing from
one of 10 highlight colors.)
One of the options in HiLiteDoc ("Automatic
- Use words in a separate file") requires a separate user-created
WP document containing search words. Please see the simple instructions
at the top of the macro's code (open the macro as a normal document
or use QuickView Plus), or click on Help from the menus.
Some of the macro techniques used: (1) Employ
a separate document file (*.WPD) to sequentially read short strings
of data from, then switch documents and search for the strings.
Employ menu entry fields to do the same thing. (2) Use a help
dialog in a menu, accessed via a pushbutton. (3) Change information
on a menu without using callbacks. In HiLiteDoc, the top half
of the main menu changes accoding to a previous menu selection
or if an "Other Menu" button is pushed on the current
menu. (4) Write out information to a separate WPD file.
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HiLiteMenu.wcm (v1.03)
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A "2-key" macro that lets you highlight
the current word or the currently selected text with a choice
of colors, then return the highlight color back to the default.
This macro is based on the HiLiteNew macro below, but may be
more useful to those who prefer using the keyboard to the mouse.
(New in version 1.01: Menu options let you delete the highlighting
uder the cursor or in a selection of text, or let you delete
all highlighting in the document.)
Tips
- This macro uses a PushButton menu, but is
especially useful if used as a "two-key" macro by assigning the macro to a convenient
key combination, such as <Alt+C> (for "color").
Then when you press these keys, the macro will pop up a menu,
whereupon you can press a color selection key (such as "g"
for "green") or click the appropriate menu button with
your mouse.
- See the QwikSet
archive for a companion macro that can change font size and other
attributes (small size, superscript, redline, etc.) with two
keystrokes.
- Advanced users: You can add or modify the
colors in the Switch() command. Be sure to edit the menu with
the Dialog Editor to add/change push buttons.
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HiLiteNew.wcm (v1.01)
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Applies a user-specified highlight color to
a selected block of text, then returns the highlight color
back to the default (usually, bright yellow). This makes it easy
to apply a different highlight color to certain text, but retain
the default color when highlighting is next applied with the
Highlight toolbar button.
The WordPerfect program "remembers"
which color was last used, so you can always reset the Highlight
button's default color manually, but this macro makes it easier
-- especially siince WordPerfect does not reset the default highlight
color between sessions. You can modify the macro's next-to-last
command to choose any default color.
Tips
- Several copies ("clones") of this
macro, each with a different highlight color and each assigned
to its own toolbar button or keystroke combination, allows the
quick application of different highlight colors to various parts
of the same document without impacting your default highlight
color. (The included macro is set to apply bright green highlighting
to selected text.)
- To make copies of the macro that will apply
different highlight colors, see the instructions in the comment
area at the top of the macro's code.
- If you select the same highlighted item and
play the macro again, the highlighting (only) will be removed.
It acts as a "toggle" switch.
- To play the macro(s) with a toolbar button
or keystroke, click here
for instructions. To edit the default toolbar button's icon,
click here (note the tip
about using Corel Presentations to use a more extensive color
pallette or create buttons with shading, fills, etc.).
- Here's an example of a "Highlighting"
toolbar you could create yourself with Tools, Settings, Customize,
Toobars, Create, then click Macros, Add Macro and add buttons/macros
for each color. See the comments in the macro for more information.
(Also see the "remove
highlighting" TIP at the bottom of this column.)
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HiLiteRem.wcm (v1.03)
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Removes highlights and (optionally) removes
the highlighted words. HiLiteRem also can be used to clean up
documents containing comments, annotations, or other text that
have been marked up with highlighting.
Version 1.01 revised the menu. Now when you
choose the option to pause at each item found, a small dialog
lets you (1) remove just the highlighting from the item, (2)
remove both the highlighting and the highlighted text,
(3) skip the item, or (4) quit the macro. This should make it
easier to selectively edit a marked-up document.
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HiLiteRC.wcm (v1.05)
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Replaces the color of existing highlighting
in the document with a different color, either the current color
that is specified on the WordPerfect toolbar (or Tools menu)
or the color specified on the menu that pops up.
A menu option allows pausing to confirm individual
replacements.
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Tips
Do you often need to remove
highlighting from a single highlighted word or section
of highlighted text?
WP has a built-in "Remove Highlighting"
feature that you can add to a toolbar as a new button.
The button will be active only if the cursor
is directly on some highlighted text or if a selected block of
text contains highlighting.
Here's how to add this feature to a toolbar:
- Right-click the toolbar and choose Edit from
the context menu. This will display the Toolbar Editor.
- Under the Features tab, choose Tools from
the "Feature categories" drop list.
- Scroll down in the "Features" list
and choose Remove Highlighting.
- Click on the "Add Button" button.
When the new button appears on the toolbar you can use your mouse
to drag it to a new location.
- Click OK, then Close.
CAUTION: If
you use the Redaction Tool in the initial release of WordPerfect
X4, here
are some tips (click here
for the PDF version) when using normal highlighting (Tools, Highlight)
in the same document that is marked up for redaction (Tools,
Redaction). Adjustments have been made to the above macros to
alert you to the presence of these new codes.
Do you need to print a
document without the highlighting?
Click Tools, Highlight and de-select the option,
"Print/Show". Enable this option following the print
run.
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