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R. L. Copple
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Date Joined Mar 2007
Total Posts : 209
| Posted 3/31/2008 5:49 AM (GMT -4) |   | For what it's worth, I used CL's manual method, and it worked for me. Of course, once you have the macro in there, it is faster to use it than to do all the settings each time, but her method works just as well.
I ran a test with some underlined words. Ctrl-H to pop up the replace text window. Put the cursor in the find field, clicked "More" and then the "Format" button and then "Fonts." In the Underline drop down list, selected the first thin underline style shown. Ok'ed out of that. Clicked in the "Replace with" field, "Format" button, "Fonts" and then clicked the drop down list to make sure "None" was selected for Underlines, then clicked on the Italic selection in the box above that, and OK'ed that window closed. Then hit "Replace all" and the three underlined text I had turned into italics.
Not sure why that didn't work for you Crystal, maybe a setting issue. But glad the macro worked, at least!
R. L. Copple
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Firlefanz
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anna
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Date Joined Apr 2007
Total Posts : 121
| Posted 4/2/2008 10:04 AM (GMT -4) | | Okay. You people all make me feel woefully inadequate......
I'd really hate to take the time away from writing to pursue a degree in computer programming. Most of what was said here, while intended to be politely helpful, is an unknown foreign language to some of us - particularly those who learned to type on a monster MANUAL Underwood. It took me quite some time just to train my fingers not to strike so hard as to cause a single letter to fill an entire line of text!
I am indeed open to trying to learn, but remember when you didn't know how to tie your shoes and someone else said it's EASY and then zipped through the process leaving you feeling rather stupid because you couldn't grasp it that fast?
Sometimes I would rather sub markets that take only hard copy because at least I know what it will look like when it arrives in the slush reader's hands. (unless someone spills coffee on it ;)
I do thank Crystal Wizard as she has tried several times to help me out. I just wish I'd read this thread before manually re-formatting a 7K story! Switching from double to single space I knew how to do. Beyond that removing indents, extra line between paragraphs and worst of all, changing to a single space after periods was all by hand. I won't even think of how long it took and I'm still paranoid that I missed a few.
Now I've been asked by an editor who requires text in the body of an e-mail to re-sub because she has my cover letter followed by story title and by-line but no text. I checked my "Sent Subs" folder and it is all there but when she received it the text was gone. And, not once but twice!
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von Darkmoor
Small Press Publisher (and Dancer still)
Date Joined Dec 2005
Total Posts : 2940
| Posted 4/2/2008 10:12 AM (GMT -4) | |
R. L. Copple said...All right. I did the work and uploaded the file to my web site. I'll probably put up a more offical page in the near future, but for everyone here, download this Word Doc file, open it up and follow the instructions. If you open it up, read and follow the instructions for installing them. If your security is set high, it might warn you that there are macros in there. And yes, there are. One's you'll most likely want. Probably works best to right-click it and select the "save as" function, and remember where you put it! Macros Word DocumentHopefully they should be self-explanitory. Hope everyone is benefited by them. Keep my name in the macros if you edit them, is all I ask. You're free to modify them as you like.
Hey, much thanks, R.L.!! Macros and I never understood each other, but I'll definitely give these a try. Two things:
1. I'm not really sure what the 'BBC' stands for (I don't think my guess is correct  ), but either way, what if I wanted to do 2 of those things, like italics and blue? 2. It seems I didn't need to do any installing in the organizer - when I did the Alt-F8 and chose organizer, I went the toolbar route - but I didn't select any because I wanted to go re-read your descriptions, so I closed the Macro organizer. After reading the explanations again, I right-clicked in the toolbar area and lo-and-behold, all 3 of your toolbars where already there! I had only planned on adding the editor's one, but I've kept them all for now.
Am I already messing up?  
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TL Morganfield
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Date Joined Oct 2005
Total Posts : 174
| Posted 4/2/2008 10:45 AM (GMT -4) | | That's awesome, RL! Thanks for sharing those. I'll probably use quite a few of them regularly.
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Sixth Sun Rising stories:
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"Love, Blood and Octi" in Paradox, October 2007
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R. L. Copple
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Date Joined Mar 2007
Total Posts : 209
| Posted 4/3/2008 12:21 AM (GMT -4) | | Anna, I learned to type on a manual too. Don't recall the brand name. 7th grade, class full of manuals, with three cool electric typewriters, which everyone got a turn at some point during the semester! Ohhhhhh! Actually, I still have an old manual one in my garage junk pile, with case. Remington if I recall correctly.
Darkmoor, the only reason to go into the Organizer and move them to the Normal.dot template is so that they will be available for any document you open. If you don't move them, they are only available when you have the MacroDoc file open. Open a different document, and you'll see they aren't there. So, if you want to use them on other documents, you have to move them into the Normal.dot template.
And BBC or BBCode is short-hand for "Bulletin Board Code." Same code used on this board (actually, here it is called "mCode" similar but with some minor differences) and others like PHPForum to do things like:
Spaces added so code won't convert to actually creating italics...so no spaces are in the brackets when you do it:
Make something italics: [ i ]text[ /i ]
Or Bold: [ b ]text[ /b ]
Or quote someone: [ quote ]text[ /quote ]
I find the BBCode macros especially handy when you want to post a story in standard format onto a forum for a critique. Run the BoldItalicsAll macro and then the one that Doublespaces paragraphs, takes out tabs. Then copy and paste to the forum (but don't save your doc or you'll overwrite your standard format...but if you do, just convert back to singlespaced paragraphs. Going back from BBCode to italics, for instance, is a bit tricker and I've not had time to write that up, so that would be a manual conversion back).
Then when critiquing a story to be posted on-line, it is very easy to mark text in the other document or forum, copy (Ctrl-C), then switch back to the doc you're writing your comments in and hit the BBCodeQuoteSel button and in pops the copied text surrounded by the quote tags. Then when you copy your comments to the forum, it is formatted correctly. I use those all the time.
Enjoy!
R. L. Copple
blog.rlcopple.com
www.raygunradio.com
www.haruah.com
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