Printing selected QuickWords

I'm using WP 14 on Windows 10.

The kind of document I am creating is a dialogue between a number of persons and I have created a list of over 600 Quick Words containing the speakers' initials, to make typing the dialogue quicker.

I already have used the macro which will automatically print my full list of QuickWords but this prints the entire list.

Is there a macro available which only prints out a list of the QuickWords which have been used in the current document? If the QuickWord appears more than once in the document, I only want the print out to display it once.

I will then use this print out at the end of my document to give the reader the key to initials of the various speakers.

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

BarryMacDonnell over 7 years ago

QuickWords are stored in their own special template (see http://wptoolbox.com/tips/QWords.html ), not in the current document. Hence you would need a macro that can find each (unexpanded) QuickWord in the current document and list them.

If the QWs were created in a standard format -- e.g., all QuickWord abbreviations are preceded with a "trigger character" (as explained on the above linked page) -- a custom macro could recognize them and then extract them, and also remove duplicates. But this requires knowledge of your custom QW format -- at the very least. HOWEVER...

One way you might be able to do it is to use a macro that produces an alphabetical list of all unique words in the document. See, for example, my WordList macro at http://wptoolbox.com/library/WordList.html . Once the list is created you can then block-remove the remaining (unwanted) words from that list. You should then have the list of just the QW abbreviations.

[Tip: Since this is a separate document from your current document, you could make a _copy_ of it and use the WordPerfect shipping macro EXPNDALL.WCM (<-note the spelling) on that separate document to expand the QW abbreviations into your character names. The two documents could then be manually combined to create a Glossary of Terms (i.e., your "key" to the initials. For more on expanding all QuickWords: http://wptoolbox.com/tips/QWords.html#expandall ]
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