Underlying Style Support for Custom Styles and Macros

July 11, 2020

Onetastic Custom Styles provides an easy way to quickly format your text with your choice of font, color, size and other formatting. However until now it didn't set the underlying style for the paragraph to one of the built-in styles supported by OneNote. For instance you can use Onetastic's custom Heading 1 style to format a paragraph but it would still use OneNote's built-in Normal style. With the latest update, Custom Styles can now also set the underlying style of the paragraph to one of the built-in styles. If you use Heading 1 custom style, it will use its unique formatting but will also mark the paragraph with the built-in Heading 1 style from OneNote.

This has the benefit of using macros like TOC in Current Page on pages where you used custom styles. Such macros check underlying style of paragraphs to find headings and wouldn't previously work with headings formatted using Custom Styles. You can see how this now works in the below video.

Macros can now change paragraph style

Paragraph objects in macros had a read-only style property. With this update this property is now read/write so you can change the style of a paragraph to one of the built-in styles. Following is a list of accepted values: p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, PageTitle, cite, blockquote, code. A sample macro demonstrating this is available here: Sample - Insert Styled Paragraph.

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Omer Atay - 2020-10-29

Hi Kevin5000, installing Onetastic requires admin privileges. You need to contact your admin to install it. Unfortunately your admin owns control of what programs are installed on your work computer.

Kevin5000 - 2020-10-29

I'm passionate about the product, but my employee has taken away administrative privileges on our machines - and with it the ability to re-load OneTastic. Have you taken away this conumdrum? Or maybe the Pro version doesn't require admin privileges?

hb - 2020-10-26

when I crop an image, I can move or resize it freely.

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Anonymous - 2020-10-20

Please make onetastic available to Macs.

Help please - 2020-09-30

I'm trying to create a simple macro where after I have selected a text, I click the macro and it comes up as a colour picker, and I choose a colour, and that colour becomes the highlight/marker on the text. I've searched all the macros and haven't found any exactly like it. But I can't figure out how to do it. This is what I've gotten so far:
LocalStore_Read("color", $highlightcolor)
$dialog_box = DialogBox_Create("")
DialogBox_AddColorPicker($dialog_box, "&Color", "color", $highlightcolor)
DialogBox_Show($dialog_box)
$highlightcolor = $dialog_box.controls["color"]
LocalStore_Write("color", $highlightcolor)
$Text.selected = true
GetCurrentText().highlightcolor = $highlightcolor

It's important that:
1. Only the SELECTED text is HIGHLIGHTED
2. I CHOOSE the highlight colour from COLOUR PICKER

That's all! Please help!

jerrylanejohns - 2020-09-30

I save a lot of emails into OneNote. When I'm looking at the OneNote page containing the email, I need a macro that would find the original email in Outlook so that I reply to the email. Could someone write this for me? I will pay for it. Thanks!

RichDev2 - 2020-09-15

How do I insert a carriage return line feed after a new page with a title is created? I want the cursor to be inserted into the first paragraph in the new page (after the Title object is created with the date and some text specified in the macro).

J - 2020-09-10

Hi there,
Can someone please make a macro that allows you to have 4 different text highlighters assigned to different keyboard short cuts? It would be really appreciated because it is much needed in college! Thank you so much!

P.S. if there is already one on here and I just haven't found it please let me know which one it is or if I can set this up on the free edition!

TheByteDoc - 2020-09-06

Onetastic does a good just of extending the functionality of OneNote.
Having said that, I am trying to manipulate the text that is selected. I used Onenote as a notepad of sorts when I am doing VBA/Excel Development and I used Constants, usually in the Form of XXX_XXX_XXX = "test". A double click only gets me to the first "_", I want to use white space for me Selection delimiters, but do not see anyway to adjust what is selected. Additionally, the ability to copy it straight to the clipboard that would be awesome. Any Ideas?

PD - 2020-08-20

Thanks a lot for creating this.

JStewart - 2020-08-19

Just want to say a BIG THANK YOU! This is an amazing add-in. Relieved all sorts of little frustrations to make a wonderful app even better. Especially love being able to sort pages by date. So grateful for your efforts!!!!

Robert Snow - 2020-08-18

Does OneTastic have a way, macro, that can load OneNote to a Book\Section\page?
Bob

RichDev2 - 2020-08-03

I need a Duration Calculator combined with a Date Picker.   I want to be able to pick two dates (with one of the dates being TODAY by default), and then select another date from a pop-up calendar.   Then I want the macro to insert the date into the current page in my open OneNote notebook.

I search on Macroland and didn't find ANYTHING in the category of Calculators or Date Pickers.

Does anyone have either of these categories of OneTaststic Macros?
If what I want doesn't exist I would like either a pop-up calendar as a date picker, or a calculator form as an example to start with.

Thank you.

Rich

Aaron C. - 2020-07-28

Hello! I work for a company that manages over 100 users. These users connect to their desktop using a remote connection with 9 terminal servers. We have a few users that take advantage of the calendar addin. We have updated the calendar macro on the terminal servers but the users still cannot select any years after 2020 in OneNote. Can someone advise as to how we can update this macro for users on the terminal servers?

bmac - 2020-07-17

I love OneCalendar and use it all of the time. During a day I will frequently update OneCalendar by searching just on work completed during the day. If I have to go back to any task, OneCalendar provides an easy route to find what I have already done.
I wish that there would be an easy way to copy the daily list generated by OneCalendar into a OneNote page that I could maintain as a journal.

JBM - 2020-07-15

Greetings. I have begun experimenting with the Tag feature in OneNote (I'm using 2013). Is there a way to eliminate the "To -Do" appearing when I search for tags? I often use "To-Do" lists but I prefer not having them listed when I do a search for tags. Thanks.
--Joe

Kristian S - 2020-07-15

Thank you for the confirmation about old text with custom style and the steps to create a new custom style.

Omer Atay - 2020-07-14

Kristian S: No, this won't affect the old text that was styled with custom styles before. If you don't like Code style changes the whole paragraph, here is how you can modify that behavior.
1. Type some text
2. Apply Code style
3. Go to Custom Styles > Save Selection as Custom Style
4. Choose existing Code style, and uncheck Styles checkbox
5. Click OK
Now Code style won't apply to the paragraph anymore

Kristian S - 2020-07-14

If I was using one of your custom styles *before* it applied to the whole paragraph (eg "Code"), will this new effect on paragraph style apply to those? I.E. do I have to go back through my notebooks looking to change what used to be just a word or phrase in Consolas but which is now the whole paragraph?
Thanks!

GerardF - 2020-07-14

If I use a sort macro, accentuated characters are sorted after non-accentuated characters. For example, if I have 3 pages in French:
Patte
Petite
Pâte
When sorting, Pâte comes last while the right order should be:
Pâte
Patte
Petite
('â' and 'a' should be considered equal when sorting).

Is there a way to change that?

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