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RECORD AND PLAY TEXTPAD MACROS

RECORD AND PLAY TEXTPAD MACROS

There are plenty of text editors, the most commonly used is the windows microsoft notepad. Although notepad is so widely used but notepad does not offer the power of macros. Notepad is good for basic text editing

Textpad is a powerful editor which has a very cool feature of macros.

The following article will demonstrate how textpad macros can be so helpful for editing files.

Lets take a very simple example, We have a file which looks like this

THIS TUTORIAL IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY MAINFRAMEWIZARD.COM

and we want to change this file to

THIS,TUTORIAL,IS,BROUGHT,TO,YOU,BY,MAINFRAMEWIZARD.COM

We can do this by using Textpad macros.

Step 1: Open the file which you wish to edit in textpad.

Step 2: Go to menu item "MACROS" and select "RECORD"

Step 3: Now do the actions on one record which you wish to

perform on the entire file.

In our case we will put a comma at the end of each word and

once we reach the end of first record we will press

"Down Arrow" key and "Home Key" so that we are at the start of

second record.

Step 4: Now go to Menu item "MACROS" and select "STOP RECORDING"

Step 5: When you select "STOP RECORDING" you will be prompted with a

window like below, asking you to verify if you wish to save the macro

press "YES"

Step 6: Once you press "YES" you will be prompted to give the name of

the macro and its scope.

You can enter a name in "File Name", "Display Name" and select the

relevant choice for "Default Play Mode"

Here I have given the name as MYMAC in both File name and Display name

and selected "Repeat to end of file" as default play mode.

Step 7: Now your macro is saved, you can execute it by going to Menu item

"MACROS" and select the name of the macro you just saved.

In this case I have selected "MYMAC"

Once the macro has run you will see that your file is changed to desired

output

Here is a Video explaining the above steps.

If you do not have this wonderful software you can download text pad by following the link textpad download and follow the instructions on the the textpad website to install textpad.

Comments

Anonymous

Sun, 02/10/2013 - 14:46

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Thanks!

I was trying to edit a text file where I needed to delete every other 1st and 2nd line, and this your explanation worked perfectly for it. Thanks again!