Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

just so we're clear, the macro functionality was not even close to the functionality in word 
perfect. all the macro did, was displaying a dialogue all of the codes. There is certainly a lot of 
use for this, but nothing near what you do automatically in word perfect.

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On Jul 4, 2019, 12:15 PM, at 12:15 PM, John <john.iliffe@iliffe.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 07:45 +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> > Hi 
> >
> > > From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support
> > Wordperfects reveal code. The developer are not too keen, and
> sometimes
> > it is stated that this feature could be implemented by a
> > macro/extension.
> >
> > Now I remember that long time ago such macros existed and using the
> > wayback machine I found them. They were written around 2005 for OO
> 1.2,
> > using the sxw format.
> >
> > I tried them out in LO 6.2 and they don't work.
> >
> > Is there somebody with enough knownledge in macros to translate those
> > macros to LO 6.2?
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> >
> > Uwe Brauer 
> Just in case any further support for this change is desired, one of the
> all-time 
> BEST features of Word Perfect was "reveal codes".  You could actually
> use it to
> figure out why the page format was not as expected! 
>
> I would love to see this feature added to Libre Office!
>
> John
> >
>
>
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