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The following macros are based on a combination
of WordPerfect features you can use yourself:
(1) Format, Font, Underline tab, Text &
Tabs (or Format, Font, Underline, Text & Tabs in WordPerfect
8);
(2) Format, Font Underline
(3) Format, Line, Flush Right or Format,
Line, Center.
However, you might find these macros more
useful, since they are fast, easy to use, and also reset your
current setting for underlining in (1).
The ZIP file contains three macros:
- UnderlineTab.wcm (v1.01) - A macro that creates an underlined tab. Each activation
produces another underlined tab, up to the right margin. Useful
to quickly create a signature line or similar short line below
the text's baseline.
- Note that you can create the tabbed underlines
and then type over them. They will expand rightward as text is
added past the next underlined tab. (Use Reveal Codes to see
what is going on at the cursor location.) The main purpose, however,
is to create a signature line that will be used as such on the
printed copy.
- Underline2Margin.wcm (v1.01;
revised 11/03/05) - A macro that creates
an underline from the current position to the right margin (i.e.,
the end of the current line) to "fill" the space with
a line, then optionally enters a hard return [HRt] and (optionally)
returns the cursor to the starting point. This allows the
line to automatically expand or contract if previous text is
edited.
- Underline2Margin was designed to work with
body text. It does not work properly inside paragraph styles
such as Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. If played in a paragraph style
it will underline everything in that style.
- New in version 1.01:
- If the new underline is created on the last
line of a page, it will not cause a new page to be generated.
[Any (optional) hard return at the end of the underlined area
is removed.]
- If you do not want the cursor to return to
the beginning of the current underlined area, and/or you do not
want a hard return entered at the end of the underlined area,
you can change these defaults in the macro's redlined User Modification
Area.
- Underline2Center (v1.0; created
11/04/05) - This macro creates a "expandable
underline" from the current cursor position (usually, the
beginning of a new line) to the center position (i.e., between
both margins) and thence to the right margin (i.e., the end of
the current line). It then optionally enters a hard return and
returns to the center of the ine, where text between the underlines
is entered via a pop-up dialog (the dialog itself can be suppressed).
It is useful in creating unique section headings and similar
items, especially since the lines adjust automatically to the
width of the centered text.
- If the new underlines are created on the
last line of a page, it will not cause a new page to be generated.
[Any (optional) hard return at the end of the underlined area
is removed.]
- If you do not want a hard return entered
at the end of the second underlined area, you can change this
and several other defaults in the macro's redlined User Modification
Area.
- TIP:
Once the item is created, you can add text to the very beginning
and/or very end of the line by moving the cursor (in Reveal Codes)
before the first [Und] code and/or after the last [Und] code.
This produces left-center-right text joined by underlines.
These macros "remember" your default
settings in Format, Font, Underline and restore them immediately
after either macro plays.
The macros can be assigned to a toolbar
button or keystroke combination.
The author uses the text property bar to hold two buttons,
 and  ,
which play the first two macros with a mouseclick. (Note that
the text property bar might be replaced by another property bar,
depending on what you are doing at the time. Therefore, you may
want to use the standard toolbar rather than a property bar for
the two buttons.)
To use the sample (16 x 16 pixel) icons above
on your own system -
- Edit your toolbar or property bar and create
buttons to play the macros:
- Right-click the toolbar or property bar where
you want to place the buttons.
- Choose Edit from the drop-down context menu,
then click the Macros tab, then click the Add Macro button.
- Choose the name of the macro from the file
dialog that opens. Click Select.
- Generally, you can answer "No"
to "Save macro with full path?" if the macro is in
your default or supplemental macros folder. If it is not, answer
"Yes."
- A gray "audiocasette" icon appears
on the right side of the toolbar or property bar.
- With the tool- or property bar's Editor dialog
still open, right-click the new icon to open the Customize Button
dialog. Customize the icon with some descriptive text and a tool
tip.
- Click OK twice to return to the main document
window.
- Repeat the above steps for the other macro.
- Next, change the button's icon. Place your
cursor over an icon above (on this web page) and right-click
your mouse. Select "Copy" from the Windows context
menu to copy the icon from this web page to the Windows clipboard.
- Note: If you are using WordPerfect version
10.0.0.663 (also known as service pack #2), be aware that the
icon editor was broken by Corel with that service pack (it was
fixed in WP10.0.0.719, a/k/a SP3). Click here
for a workaround to use instead of the next steps.
- Open WordPerfect and right-click the toolbar
that has the new audiocasette button whose image you want to
change. Select Edit from the drop-down context menu, then right-click
the appropriate button, then select "Customize." This
will bring up the Customize Button dialog.
- Click the "Edit" button on the
Customize Button dialog to bring up the Image Editor.
- In the Image Editor, click "Clear,"
then "Paste" to paste the new image from the Windows
clipboard. Make any needed adjustments, then click "OK"
until you are back in the document window.
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