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Stephen
Ford |
FORD.ZIP
(33,505 bytes) - Contains two WPD documents -
- Macro Commands.wpd
- A listing of all product and system macro commands. Makes it
easy to search for a command when you know only part of the command's
name. Then use WP's Macro Help for information about that command.
- WP9 keyboard template.wpd
- a modified version of WP9FKeys.
It lines up descriptive labels above the function keys on a standard
keyboard. Easily modified for other keyboard layouts.
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7,8,9,10,11,12.X3 |
Ron
Hirsch |
NOTE: Ron Hirsch has graciously contributed
these macros. If you have problems or suggestions, you can contact
Ron at his new e-mail address (as of April 2007): ronhirsch1439
@ comcast.net (remove spaces).
Download REPLACE.ZIP (04/13/06;
54,088 bytes)
The download file
contains three macros:
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(1) Replace
Codes - Plus.wcm (v1.02) for WordPerfect versions 9-X3+;
(2) Replace
Codes - Plus - v101.wcm for WordPerfect 8-12; does not
process styles)
Replace Codes - Plus is a macro that can change,
augment (i.e., add to) or remove a font attribute such as bold,
italics, underline, double underline, shadow, strikeout, redline,
small caps, or highlight.
It can (optionally)
delete the text between the chosen codes (useful for removing
"draft" text or other annotations).
For example, you can
change all underlines to italics (or vice versa),
or all bold words to bold/underlined/redlined words. You also can add or
remove highlighting, or even remove the highlighted text.
See the Sample Screen above for a view of the menu.
As Ron says, "This
macro allows the user to modify the font attribute codes of bold,
italic, underline, double underline, strikeout, shadow, small
caps, redline ... and also add, replace, or remove highlighting
in a document. Codes can be turned off, added to, or deleted.
While it is possible to do code deletions via WP's search and
replace feature, changing codes in a large document can be a
long and arduous task without the use of a macro to do the work."
Options allow you to
1) start at the top of the document or the current cursor location,
2) prompt for each replacement, and 3) work in headers, footers,
footnotes, and endnotes, and 4) delete both the chosen item's
codes and the text between them.
NOTES, TIPS and CAVEATS:
- New in version 1.02 (for WP9 and later versions
only) is the ability to apply a style to replace an existing
format attribute. For example, you could replace highlighted
text with a custom style (that may also contain highlighting).
- Since a style can contain
more than one format attribute -- a style is like a container
of several formatting codes and/or text -- this may be useful
under a variety of circumstances. Plus, once you apply a style,
it is easy to change the "look" of the style wherever
it appears by simply changing one instance of that style.
- If you later need to
replace the new style with another style, you can use the REPLSTYL macro. (REPLSTYL can
also remove a style.) You can also include codes in a style to
mark the style (thus, any instance
of it in the document) for inclusion in a Table of Contents.
- When applying styles
to replace format attributes:
- The style you want
to use must exist in the current document. When asked, be sure
to enter the name EXACTLY as it appears in the document's Style
List (on the text property bar, or shown in Format, Styles).
- Styles can be either
Paragraph or Character. However, Paragraph styles will affect
the entire paragraph to which they are applied, which may or
may not be what you want. (They should work well if the original
formatted selection was also a paragraph.)
- Character styles will
affect only text bracketed by the pair of format codes that you
chose from the main menu's left group, and probably are the
most useful.
- Note that Document
("open") styles will not work properly in this macro
since they have no ending codes; therefore, use only Paragraph
or Character styles.
- If you enable the "Stop
at each item..." option on the dialog that appears when
you choose to appply a style (or if you choose the 'Prompt...'
option from the main menu) you will see the effects of applying
the style to a particular item; if you don't like the result,
you can Quit at that point. Any changes can be undone with Edit,
Undo.
- Applying highlighting: The default highlight color
(bright yellow) used by the macro when adding highlighting is
coded into the macro at about line 36 with the command, HighlightColor
(Red: 255; Green: 255; Blue: 0; Shade: 100). If you remove or comment out this command
("//"), you'll be able to preselect any highlight color
before playing the macro. In the same vein, you can set some
other default color for the macro to use by changing the command's
parameters (color values can be 0-255; shade values are 0-100).
- TIP: To replace one highlight color
with another wherever it occurs, simply play the macro and replace
all existing highlighting in the document with something you
aren't using in that document, such as the Shadow font attribute.
Then set the new highlight color on the toolbar and play the
macro again, replacing all Shadow attributes with highlighting.
Or, you could use HILITERC (included
in HILITE.ZIP) to change the color of existing highlighting
in a document.
- To
change attribute codes to text markers, see CODE2TXT,
a macro that changes text surrounded by attribute codes (e.g.,
[Bold On][Bold Off]) to text surrounded by user-defined text
markers (e.g., <B></B>), such as HTML tags, Folio
markup codes, Ventura codes, etc.
- Strikeout
and redline font attributes
are paired codes, applied from the WordPerfect Format/Font
menu, and are not the same thing as deletions and insertions
that are created with File/Document/Compare or Review, even though
they may look the same on screen. The latter are not processed
by this macro.
- Apply
format attributes to words throughout the document in one pass: For macros that can find multiple
words/phrases anywhere in the document and add a font attribute
(e.g., italics) to all of them, see the footnotes here.
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(3)
Replace Font Size via menu.wcm
(v1.01; 04/13/06)
This macro has two basic
operations:
(1) It changes
one font size to another size, or
(2) it removes
the specified font size throughout the document.
Note that #1 works on
paired [Font Size] codes, not on codes that may be part
of the document's initial style (or other style), or the default
template. Paired font size codes are applied whenever you select
some text and change the font for that selection.
New in version 1.01: You can specify decimal sizes
(e.g., 11.5). Just type the decimal size directly into the appropriate
menu field(s).
TIP: To replace multiple instances
of one font type with another font type (from Jan
Berinstein on WordPerfect Universe, 02/27/04):
With the cursor
at the very top of the document, invoke Find and Replace. Click
the "Type" menu at the top of the F&R dialog box,
then click "Specific Codes." In the sub-dialog that
appears, click "Font," then "OK." You should
be able to use pull-down menus to instruct WP to replace [the
first font] with [the second font], and then click "Replace
All." Be sure to repeat the process at least once, since
I've found that it sometimes misses a few instances on the first
pass.
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Other macros by
Ron Hirsch:
AUTORUN2.ZIP - (05/30/03; 4,987 bytes) -
AutoRun2 is a macro that offers a FILE>OPEN window and plays
some user-specified macro code automatically when a document
is opened. See the instructions at the top of the macro code.
CLEANUP.ZIP - Contains a macro to clean
up e-mail messages copied into WordPerfect. The macro removes
hard returns within paragraphs (so that they will wrap properly),
line breaks, extra spaces, ">" and "<"
symbols, etc. See the comments at the top of the macro's code.
Uploaded 11/1/99; 4,083 bytes. See also FixMsgs
in the Library, which offers similar capabilities.
FORMFILL.ZIP - A macro to facilitate filling
in preprinted (paper) forms using WP and your printer. Useful
if you need to fill in the same form many times. See also "Filling in forms using WordPerfect".
Uploaded 9/1/02; 30,934 bytes. (Works in WP10.0.0.719 - Ed.)
GREENBAR.ZIP - Contains a WP 8+ macro that formats tables to mimic
3-row "green bar" fanfold paper using gray table cell
fills that alternate every 3 rows with no fills. Uploaded 2/16/00;
7,711 bytes. See also RowLines
in the Library.
GRIDS.ZIP - A macro that generates various
watermark grid designs in a watermark. Great for quickly printing
sheets of graph paper as well as setting up a grid under body
text. The user can set up whatever grid sizes and rows/columns
that are desired; lines and fill areas can have colors selected
by the user. Uploaded 10/27/00; 10,134 bytes.
MACROTIP.ZIP - Macro Tips and
Tricks. A short WP document to help beginners write their own
macros. Uploaded 2/21/00; 8,107 bytes.
MACROS_2.ZIP - More Macro Tips and Tricks.
Contains 4 files, a WPD and 3 WP8/9 macros. According to the
author, "These files are the basis for a learning experience
in WP for macros and dialog boxes. The 5-page document details
the exact procedure for recording a simple macro. It then provides
the steps necessary to construct a dialog box in that macro.
Each step of the way is clearly presented, with commentary where
applicable. The three macro files are stages in the construction
of the final macro which is the third macro file. This final
macro is complete, with numerous notes, and commentary contained
within the body of the macro." Uploaded 2/25/00; 22,289
bytes.
SPECPAPR.ZIP - "Special
Paper Sizes" (Rev 5d) - A WordPerfect 8/9 macro by Ron Hirsch
that fools WP and your printer into accepting any paper size.
Cures problems with some printers that can't properly print special
size pages. Uploaded 12/11/01; 20,547 bytes. Not tested under
WP10 but should work in that version.
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6,7,8,9,10,11,12 |
John
Land |
Over 160 WordPerfect
for Windows macros
in a ZIP archive file. Documentation (!JLMACRO.WPD) is included
in the archive or you can read it
here online.
Originally published
on CompuServe. Dedicated to the public domain by John
Land, Esq. Thanks, John!
EXAMPLES:
- One of the most useful
macros in John's collection is #WATERMK.WCM,
which
- "inserts
a stamp vertically in the left margin using Watermark B. Includes
DRAFT, REDLINE, RESPONSE REQUIRED, RESPONSE OPTIONAL, INFORMATIONAL
ONLY, CONFIDENTIAL, COPY, SECOND COPY, and SAMPLE, you can also
specify your own, including point size and gray shade. The general
position on the page and rotation (in 90 increments) can be specified."
- Another good example
of John's work is #FIX.WCM (FIX TEXT PROBLEMS):
- Fix line endings by
removing occurrences of extra spaces before or after a carriage
return codes, page codes, table cells, etc., and fix the endings
of footnotes and endnotes to delete unwanted spaces, HRt codes,
tabs, and indents.
- Delete excess HRt codes
to at most 2 in sequence.
- Change single HRt codes
to spaces (useful for cleaning up imported ASCII text files);
leaves alone a sequence of HRt codes separating paragraphs
- Change typewriter "quotes"
to "fancy" printers quotes (a/k/a typographical quotes).
- Deletes "empty"
attribute pairs in a document (e.g., [UND][und], with no printable
characters in between).
- Convert paired hyphens
to a single printers em dash or en dash, or a hyphen character
to a hyphen, or a "[space] hyphen [space]" to an en
dash. The macro inserts an "invisible soft return"
before and after each em dash, and after (not before) each en
dash, so that words divided by dashes can break at the end of
a line.
- Converts double spaces
to single spaces.
- Delete extra spaces
in a document to at most 2 in sequence.
- Convert spaces to left
tabs or left indents (you can select the minimum number of spaces
to search; the default is 3).
- Convert left tabs to
left indents.
- #PAR2TXT.WCM converts WordPerfect's outline paragraph
numbers (those created with Insert, Outline/Bullets & Numbering...)
to ordinary text numbers. NOTE:
For WordPerfect 8 and later, download PAR2TXT.ZIP here
(7,101 bytes) which contains a slightly modified version of the
macro that has been tweaked to run under WP8+. But also note
that the macro will convert other paragraph styles (e.g., Heading
2) to ordinary body text.
- #PARCONV.WCM - does the opposite:
- "Searches and
replaces text paragraph numbers (e.g., 1.1, 1.11, 1(c), etc.)
and replaces them with automatic paragraph numbering codes. Useful
for converting a document keyed in with fixed character paragraph
numbers. Position dependent and independent paragraph codes can
be selected.
- Note that ANY paragraph
beginning with a 1-6 character "word" AND having a
( or ) or . within the word is considered to be a paragraph number.
Thus, a paragraph BEGINNING with "U.S.A." WILL have
the "U.S.A." converted into a paragraph code. Accordingly,
this macro normally should be used in prompted mode.
- Can also be used to
add paragraph numbers to existing "plain" text that
has no text paragraph numbers; this forces prompted mode."
- IMPORTANT: You probably
will want to edit the macro as follows:
- Change the Application
line to Application (A1; "WordPerfect"; Default!)
- Comment out ("//")
all the Display() commands -- there are eight of them -- except
the Display(On!) command that immediately follows DialogShow
("menu";"WordPerfect"). There should be a
Display(On!) command active at that point (but not a Display(Off!)).
Crude editing, but effective.
- The macro defaults
to numbering paragraphs with the standard "Numbers"
outline style, but this can be changed in the vLevel[] array
at the end of the macro code.
- For macro writers:
John's _CODES.WCM macro shows codes and numerical
character values of the item to the left and right of the cursor.
You can move the cursor and the display is automatically refreshed,
allowing you to see multiple codes while the macro is running.
For WordPerfect 8 and later versions.
 A
slightly modified version of _CODES.WCM, renamed ShowCodes.wcm, can be found in the CODECHAR.ZIP
file by Lindsay Rollo (see below). It now shows the actual character
to the left and right of the cursor.
JLMACS80.ZIP
For WordPerfect 8
- but many (if not most) will work with WordPerfect 9+. Because of space limitations
on this page, JLMACS80 is available from Simtel.Net
(in the Windows Me/98/95 section) as JLSMACS80.ZIP.
JLMACS61.ZIP
For WordPerfect 6.
Because of space limitations on this page, JLMACS61
is available from Simtel.Net (in the Windows 3.x section) as
JLMACS61.ZIP.
JLMACRO.ZIP
(8/23/98; documentation
only for all versions; 44,310 bytes -- this document
is included with each ZIP version above, or you
can read the documentation here online
to see a description of each macro)
NUMCONV.ZIP
Need to change numbers
to words? Here are two slightly modified versions of John Land's
^numcnvt.wcm macro to convert numbers (123, $123.45, 12%) to
words ("One Hundred Twenty-three..." etc.). The "S"
(short) version leaves off the trailing parentheses that enclose
the original numerals. (8/8/00; 28,551 bytes)
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9,10,11,12 |
Roy
("lemoto") Lewis
Corel C_Tech |
SWAPTHEM.ZIP
(5,229 bytes) - a simple macro that swaps any two selected items
(names, phrases, etc.) throughout a document. Just select the
first item and play the macro. A message will appear to ask you
to select the second item and click OK. The macro will swap all
instances of item #1 (e.g., "Party 1") with item #2
(e.g., "Party 2"). SWAPTHEM was written in WordPerfect
9.0.0.883, but should work in other versions.
See also John Land's
#SWAP2.WCM in JLMACS80.ZIP.
It uses a dialog menu where you type in the two items, and has
several search and replace options.
Several
macros by Roy Lewis are directly downloadable from his
web site. (For support or broken links,
please contact Roy at notanexpert@blueyonder.co.uk.)
The available macros are contained in these ZIP files:
Keyboard
- http://lemoto.myby.co.uk/toolboxoa/Keyboard.zip
includes
- SelSntce (navigate/select by sentence),
- CapIniBr (current word/s: bracket, toggle
initial capital, format initials),
- Flip2 (reverse order of preceding
2 letters or words), and
- SubSpr (super/subscript previous or
selected characters)
Macros
Open
Routines
Other items
- (11/23/04) Create 16x16
toolbar icons from larger (32x32) icons found in other programs
or other sources. As Roy says,
"The basic idea
is to create toolbar icons from program (and other large) icons,
which are 32x32 pixels. Presentations can resize them by a roundabout
route, and when it then Resamples the now smaller icon it seems
to do some anti-aliasing as well. I found the results attractive.
Tested in 9 and 12."
Download
a small ZIP file (IconNew.zip)
with instructions and an example graphic (.WPG) image.
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6,7,8,9 |
Gordon
McComb |
COUNTER8.ZIP
for WP7, WP8, WP9, and later. (16Kb)
COUNTER6.ZIP
for WP61 (Windows 3.1) (16Kb)
[These two files can
be found on Gordon McComb's web site at http://www.gmccomb.com/vault/
under the names "Counter for WPWin 7/8" and "Counter for WPWin 6.1". They were renamed here
to avoid conflicts with the author's own COUNTER.ZIP and to allow
storing them in the same download folder.]
Descriiption:
"Counter
is a generic counter system for WordPerfect for Windows. It keeps
track of one or more counters in documents; the counters are
for automatically incrementing numbers, such as invoice numbers,
order numbers, and customer numbers. Can be used with any document
or template. Counters are configured by editing a simple text
file; there is no need to alter the macro engine. Distributed
free, and comes with documentation. For use with WPWin 7 and
8 (Windows 95); not for use with WPWin 6.x or WPWin 7 for Windows
3.1."
NOTE
1: COUNTER8.ZIP
is also bundled inside Barry MacDonnell's INVOICE.ZIP. Barry's
Invoice.wcm macro can (optionally) use Gordon's Counter.wcm to
create an automatically incrementing invloice number at the time
the invoice is generated by the macro. Invoice.wcm with Counter.wcm
work together very well under Windows XP and WP9.
NOTE
2: If you use
WP6.1, use COUNTER6.ZIP instead of COUNTER8.ZIP.
Other macros by Gordon
McComb, including some that create calendars and menus, can be
downloaded from http://www.gmccomb.com/vault/.
(No support or warranty
is offered for these two macros.)
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7,8,9,10,11,12 |
Lindsay
Rollo |
- TRANSLATE.ZIP
(12/30/05; 35,631 bytes) - This package comprises four macros
and an explanatory document. It was developed to process translated
documents but may also be used with English third party documents.
Co-incidentally the macros can provide items for inclusion in
indexes, and glossaries.
- MisSpelt.wcm captures
as a list all text entries identified by the
Spell Checker as 'mis-spelt' or not already added to a custom
dictionary.
- CleanUp.wcm removes
punctuation and other characters and some codes
from lists, sorts the list and deletes duplicate entries. Additional
or alternative characters and codes can be easily added.
- ExtractLC.wcm separates
into two documents list entries with an
initial upper case or lower case character.
- Hyphen_Dash.wcm substitutes
the WP CharSet value 4,33 [-] for a
hyphen.
- CODECHAR.ZIP (11/23/04; 123,924 bytes) -
Finding and Using Codes and Characters in WordPerfect Macros
- Knowing which character
or code precedes or follows the cursor may be an important factor
in making a macro work successfully. This document assembles
information about using the system variables ?Left/?RightCode
:: ?Left/?RightChar to find codes and characters in WordPerfect
macros. Some macro tips and code fragments are included, together
with guides to additional resources and other details that affect
the use of variables and commands. A macro that displays code
values adjacent to the cursor is included.
- SPACES2TAB.ZIP (8/22/04; 4,702 bytes) - Searches
for and deletes all occurrences of multiple spaces and substitutes
a LeftTab code. Particularly useful when tabular material converted
from other programs use multiple spaces to preserve visual appearance
of the original document or table. Can be easily modified to
substitute a single space or other character or code in documents.
- PGLNNO.ZIP (07/18/04; 22,690 bytes) -
"Page-Line-Number" - A macro written by New Zealand
author Lindsay Rollo that finds a specified character string
in a document and records in a second document the page number,
line number, and type and location of each string's occurrence.
[See also PageLine in the
main Library, which can produce a complete page- and line number
Index.]
- SPACES.ZIP (98,375 bytes) - WordPerfect
users who produce self-published documents, prepare them as camera-ready
copy, or who generate PDF files will appreciate this archive
file. It includes a free font, space.ttf, to produce typographical
hard spaces, which improve readability in headings, measurements,
etc.
- WPWIN does not provide
for typographic spaces - that is fixed spaces of various widths
that are proportional of the base font size. At least three typographic
spaces are usually available in dedicated DTP programs. This
archive file includes a TrueType font for creating typographic
spaces [licensed for personal use], and explanatory notes and
examples about the uses for typographic spaces in general documents
of all types and particularly for compliance with ISO standards
and academic publishing standards in scientific, technical and
professional journals, reports and publications. The notes are
in PDF format, and include a macro example for WordPerfect.
- Incluided in the above
ZIP file is a separate zrchive file, SPACERS.ZIP, which contains six macros.
These macros can be assigned to keystrokes
such as Alt+1, Alt+2, etc., to automate the insertion of typographical
spaces.
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8,9,10,11,12,X3 |
Charles
Rossiter
Corel C_Tech |
ALLROSSITERMACROS.ZIP
(252,257 bytes; 3 Sep 07) - Macros by Charles
Rossiter
This archive and the
individual macros are also available from Charles's site at http://rossiter.co.za/downloads/
and may be more up-to-date than the ZIP file here.
The archive contains
a WPD
document and
these macros:
- AppBarMsg.wcm
- (WP9+) To display messages at the bottom right of the screen:
Page X of Y
Word count
Character count
User-defined message
- CharCount.wcm
(WP9+) - To provide word, character and white space counts for
main text, footnotes, endnotes, headers/footers, text boxes and
comments separately. May be applied to whole document or to selected
text. The results may be written to the clipboard and so be pasted
into the current or a new document.
- CleanSave.wcm
- To save a file with a refreshed internal header, with old metadata
removed. Options:
Saves the file with original date and time (optional).
Saves with the original document summary (optional).
Saves with a backup file (optional).
Saves with default font settings and language settings.
- ConvertCaseInitialCaps.wcm
(For WP10 and later versions) - To workaround a bug in WPWin10
and later, which causes the WPWin command Convert Case Initial
Capitals to fail, if the Tools, Settings, Convert option "Do
not use printer metrics" has been selected and written to
the default template. The macro could be attached to the Edit,
Convert menu.
- Delete
Current File.wcm (NOT for WP8 - but see Shredder) - To delete
the file currently on-screen.
- FloatingCellToolbar.wcm
- Toggle the TableFormulaCellBar on/off for Floating Cells.
- Julian.wcm
- To calculate Julian dates, and numbers of days between 2 dates.
- Margins
Set.wcm (Not needed for WPWin8, but functions correctly) - To
set margins for pages and labels. Correction for bug in WPWin9
and later.
- NewSave.wcm
- To save a file with a refreshed internal header. As CleanSave.wcm,
but without the options.
- QWManage.wcm
- Manage QuickWords.
A. Create a 2 column table listing all QuickWords Abbreviations
and their Expansions defined in the current, default and supplemental
templates.
B. Restore QuickWords and their expansions from the output of
option A created in a table with 2 columns of Abbreviations and
Expansions.
- Reverse
Case.wcm - To reverse the case of selected text.
- SMR.wcm
- Macro for calculating the 95% confidence intervals for a Standardized
Mortality Ratio, given the values of at least 2 of SMR, observed
deaths, expected deaths.
- Style
List.wcm - Creates a list of all document and outline styles
in the default template.
- TableAttributesRemove.wcm
- Removes Table and Table Cell attributes; leaves table text
attributes unchanged.
- Text_Open-Save.wcm
(WP9+) - To provide all options available for opening and saving
Ansi/Ascii files.
- WordCount.wcm
(WP9+) - To provide word counts for main text, footnotes, endnotes,
headers/footers, text boxes and comments separately. May be applied
to whole document or to selected text. The results may be written
to the clipboard and so be pasted into the current or a new document.
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9,10,11,12 |
Jim Shackleford |
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Need to insert identical
text in several locations that you can change easily and quickly?
Here's a macro for WordPerfect 9/10+ to do it (for other WP versions,
or to use a Style as an alternative, see below):
FAUXVAR9.ZIP (16,867 bytes) - A WordPerfect
9/10 macro that mimics WP10's new document variables feature.
As Jim's overview states:
"WordPerfect
10, part of Corel WordPerfect Office 2002, introduced a new feature
– document variables. Document variables allow a user to
create, save, and retrieve variables which can be placed into
a document. This allows the user to simply change the value of
the variable in one place and have those changes reflected throughout
the document."
[Ed.- This includes variables inside headers, footers,
notes, etc.]
"FAUXVAR
is a WordPerfect macro system which mimics the behavior of document
variables through the use of character styles. Up to 99 faux
variables can be used in a document. If you wish to create, edit,
save or retrieve faux variables, this macro will simplify the
procedure. You may still use WordPerfect’s built-in styles
editor if you desire."
He also states, "You
can use faux variables with WordPerfect 10. You may wish to do
this if you share documents with others with earlier versions
of WordPerfect."
NOTE: In addition to
the method Jim describes to edit a faux variable, you can also
double-click the variable's code in the Reveal Codes window.
Copy the macro and its
two helper files to your default or supplemental macros folder.
You may want to play the macro from a toolbar
button or key combination.
The macro has a Help button that explains how to create and edit
these variables.
Jim has several free
macros for download at http://ourworld.cs.com/perfectstuff/download_free_wordperfect_macros.htm. |
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For
earlier versions of WordPerfect (i.e., WP9 and earlier) that
do not have the Insert, Variable feature, you can
use a style to duplicate this feature:
You can create a Character
style that contains the text you want to appear in various places
in your document. Then just apply the style in each location
(no need to type the text at those locations since it is already
"inside" the style itself). Here's how.
1. Click on Format,
Styles, Create. This brings up the Styles Editor.
2. Give the new style
a name and brief description. Choose "Character" as
the Type. Be sure to check the box, "Automatically update
style when changed in document."
3. In the Contents field
of the Styles Editor, enter (or paste) your text. Format it if
desired.
4. Click OK, then Close,
to return to the document.
In the document (in
an empty area), click Format, Styles, and choose the new style
in the left pane, then click Insert. (Or, even easier: select
the style from the drop list on your property bar.)
The text should appear
in the document, but if you look in Reveal Codes, all you'll
see is a pair of [Char Style] codes. Click on any one of these
codes to bring up the Styles Editor, make any changes, then close
the Styles Editor. The change should appear wherever the style
was applied.
Notes
- This use of a style
is basically the same idea behind the new Variable feature of
WP10/11.
- There appears to be
a limit of about 4,000 characters that you can use inside a variable
or style's Contents field.
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