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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: Quattro Pro for windows: QUESTION
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.054952.2644@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:49:52 GMT
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- Richard van der Veen (rvdv@ktibv.uucp) wrote:
- > {GetLabel Number of Copies, _Copies}
-
- > where _Copies is a named cell. Now I want to use the _Copies name in one
- > of the following statements, which should be like:
-
- > {Print.Copies _Copies}
-
- > The result is
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- > Invalid number {Print.Copies}
- > (Cell Address)
-
- > How can you use named cells in such macros ??
-
- You could use a self-modifying macro that creates the {Print.Copies line
- with the string equivalent of _Copies in it, just before executing it. I've
- used similar tactics before to get around some macro inadequacies.
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
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