Multi-Select and Cut/Copy/Paste Support in Macro Editor

May 01, 2018

With today's update, you can now select multiple lines of code together in Macro Editor and then move, delete or expand/collapse them together. You can also cut or copy multiple lines of code and then paste them elsewhere in the same macro or to another macro. You can even paste copied code with syntax highlighting into Word or OneNote.

Cut/Copy/Paste of multiple lines requires a Onetastic Dev license. Here is a little demonstration of the new capabilities (no audio):

Direct Access to Page Title

Today's update also includes a few small additions to the macro language: Page.title and Page.hasTitle properties and Title.paragraph property.

Page.title property represents the title area of the page that contains the title bar, date and time. Accessing this object will create the page title if it doesn't already exist. You can use Page.hasTitle property to check whether a title already exists or not.

Title.paragraph property gives access to the single paragraph that is in the title. These properties will make it easier to set or retrieve the title of a page:

$page = GetCurrentPage()

$page.title.paragraph.text = "Hey!"

Macro Logging Deprecated

Before developer tools like Macro Debugger and Object Browser existed, you could get a log of a macro execution through Settings/Enable Macro Debugging. With the introduction of powerful developer tools this feature is now deprecated and will be removed in a future update.

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Omer Atay - 2018-07-20

vanz99: There is no option to record macros. Macros also currently don't support the paragraph spacing options.

vanz99 - 2018-07-20

Hi all, I didn't see any documentation on how to record our own macros. I think there should be an option to Record for those of us with specific needs...if this option exists please send a link on the directions.

I do have a macro request on something I constantly do for easier web page copying... It is for paragraph Line spacing which I'm surprised not to find an option for under macro downloads.
Paragraph Spacing options...
Before: 10
After: 10
Line Spacing at least: 6

Any help is appreciated.

Philippe J. Bruno - 2018-07-16

Hi Dianna,
I saw your request and thought it was a nice little challenge. As a result, I wrote a macro that does exactly what you are looking for. See it for yourself, it is now available in Macroland under the name "Sum Hours In Page Titles of Current Section".
Enjoy!

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Philippe J. Bruno - 2018-07-12

Hi JBM,
To double space, I simply go to Home tab > Paragraph Alignment > Paragraph Spacing Options… From there, I set the "Line spacing at least" setting to double the font size I use (generally Calibri 11 points, so I enter 22). From that point on, you'll get the effect of double spacing. When you are done with a paragraph, make sure to hit Enter to continue double spacing with the next paragraph. Otherwise, if you hit the Down Arrow key, you will revert back to single line spacing for the next paragraph.

CJE - 2018-07-11

Omer,
Thanks for the plethora of useful macros that you've had a hand in! Is there a macro that will get all the text in multiple pages and output all that text into separate text documents (one doc per OneNote page)? I've been looking around with no luck yet.
Thanks!

--CJE

JBM - 2018-07-09

Dear Omer: Hope all is well. Is here a macro (or default setting) for "double-spacing"? Generally I prefer double-spacing when typing my notes, etc. Please let me know. Thanks.
--Joe

JBM - 2018-07-08

Dear Omer: Hope all is well. Is there a basic outline "macro" that I could download? Sometimes I want to create an outline in OneNote--something that is already designed. I couldn't find anything in the Page Templates. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks as always,
--Joe

Omer Atay - 2018-07-08

Dianna: This can be done with a macro but I don't think we have one that does it right now.

Dianna - 2018-07-07

Is it possible to sum numbers found in the page title in a standard format? For example, I use One Note for my work diary and format the title as:
Day, Date: (# hours)
So I would want to sum all of the hours in all pages in a section to know how many hours that I worked...
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Dianna

Omer Atay - 2018-06-29

LOOregano2: Have you tried one of these:
- Recent Edits: https://getonetastic.com/macro-6E5709798881443AB2C7E0E1DBAA011E
- Recent Edits with Author Info: https://getonetastic.com/macro-A166E5BB77AB4269BB02783153C06216

gks - 2018-06-29

Is it that much hard even for you, to find Duplicate Notes in Onenote that we could not see this feature in Onetastic, till now ?

gks - 2018-06-29

Hi Omar,

Is there any way to find 100% Duplicate Notes inside a Section / Notebook or in Multiple notebooks ?

LOOregano2 - 2018-06-28

On shared OneNote Notebooks, the user and the date of the last edit and I can see this information if I RMB on any line. Do you have a macro (or other means) where I can search all edits based on the user initials (or name) of the user who edited a shared Notebook?

I looked in all the search macros you have, and in the setup for the OneCalendar, but did not find anything that could help with this, though I could have missed it. It would also be useful to see the initials/name of all users who edited the notebook and then be able to click on it and then see a list of all their edits and creations.

Thanks! Lawrence

thegaurav - 2018-06-28

Hi Omar,

Is it certain that Onenote 2019 (Desktop version) won't be released with Office 2019 ? because i think there was running a campaign to 'urge' microsoft to release Onenote2019 desktop version also with Office 2019 and on onenote uservoice - the status of that idea is 'gathering feedback'.

Philippe J. Bruno - 2018-06-22

Hi Omer, I was manually fixing some notes, adding space after each paragraph, and I wanted to add some extra space before each Heading 1 paragraph. To make this a breeze, I wrote a nice little macro only to find out that Paragraph.spaceBefore is a read-only property! Why is that? Can you make it a read-write property in the next update?

Imagineer44 - 2018-06-21

I just paid for another year of OneTastic, and on this page I see that I won't be able to use it if I upgrade OneNote (currently using 2016). I assume MS will update OneNote whether I want it to or not (I'm using 365). What a loss!

Omer Atay - 2018-06-18

Jasmine: OneNote for Windows 10 does not support addins.

Jasmine - 2018-06-18

Is it true that Onetastic will not work with the newest version of OneNote (for Windows 10). The last version it works with is OneNote 2016

JBM - 2018-06-13

Many thanks Omer. This macro is very helpful. Much appreciated.
JBM

Omer Atay - 2018-06-12

JBM: Here is a macro to add/remove date/time from pages: https://getonetastic.com/macro-53EE3ED4C52A45DC8CB3CCF9A540093C

Mike Batiste - 2018-06-12

Hi
First far most I think your program is amazing. I was wondering if there's a macro with Tag Complete with Date, Time and Author.
Thanks

A Fan - 2018-06-06

Can you please change the update notification so that it is not a HUGE button that forces the Ribbon to hide a lot of buttons from the home tab? It makes using OneNote very unproductive until you update. I hope that is not the intention.

Juan - 2018-06-03

I am installing Onetastic for 64bit
Current version: 3.12.1
When I execute it does not start at all.
HI have Windows 10 and OneNote 2016 64bit
any help?

JBM - 2018-06-02

Greetings. Is there a convenient way to eliminate the date/time stamp on pages? I generally don't need them. Is the a "universal" way (macro?) to do this? Or perhaps a setting?
Thanks.
Joe

DAF - 2018-06-01

Fabulous add-in you've created. Congratulations!

Here's a tricky situation, and perhaps there's a way to build a macro to resolve it.
I have about 600 one-note pages all titled with a person's name then the date. e.g., Alan Smith - 1/13/2014
Is there a way to build a macro that would remove the date from the title, or at least copy the date in the title, and make that the date on the page?
Every title is constructed the same way: [Name] " - " [date]
Thanks!!

sandyga2 - 2018-06-01

Omer Atay I Ran a macro without downloading and do not want it .... how do I reverse the change it made? macro was Set Section Color......

Omer Atay - 2018-05-24

Trina: Win 10 app does not support add-ins currently. So we cannot develop Onetastic for it. OneNote 2016 will still be supported till 2025. It just won't get new features. We will continue to develop and support Onetastic as long as OneNote 2016 is supported by Microsoft. If Microsoft adds add-in support for Win 10 app it may be possible for us to develop Onetastic for it.

Trina M MacDonald - 2018-05-24

I'm just curious if Microsoft's announcement about sunsetting OneNote 2016 (eventually) and moving to OneNote (365 version) means anything for developing macros for OneNote? I've only ever used 2016 on the desktop, so just need to know if the plan is to be able to edit and create macros that will work with the 365 version. Thanks!

Rami Abdullah - 2018-05-18

Hello.
I hope that you add the Arabic language

IamHammer - 2018-05-09

Hmmm, strange. I just loaded it up again to take a screenshot. Low and behold it is no longer stuck in compact mode. I cannot reproduce it, so it would be hard to fix. Thanks for the response.

Omer Atay - 2018-05-09

IamHammer: Compact mode is and always has been only available in home tab only. It should be disabled in separate tab.

IamHammer - 2018-05-09

Compact Mode is no longer able to be deselected when Macros are displayed in a separate tab. Is there a way I can correct this?

Omer Atay - 2018-05-08

Marius: Win 10 app does not support add-ins currently. So we cannot develop Onetastic for it. OneNote 2016 will still be supported till 2025. It just won't get new features. We will continue to develop and support Onetastic as long as OneNote 2016 is supported by Microsoft. If Microsoft adds add-in support for Win 10 app it may be possible for us to develop Onetastic for it.

Marius - 2018-05-07

Not sure where to post this. With the deprecation of OneNote 2016 in favor of OneNote for Windows 10, where does it place OneTastic?

Hiro - 2018-05-06

Awesome, this will make working in macro editor so much more convinient. Thanks!
What I think dwg wants to accomplish is to write code externally (or export and then find&replace vars or something) and then just copy to macro editor the finished code and/or keep snippets of code externally and copy them into macro editor when needed. That would indeed be cool

Philippe J. Bruno - 2018-05-03

Wow! Omer, this is truly a Onetastic update! I love it Thanks!

Omer Atay - 2018-05-02

dwg: You can already copy a section of code from one macro and paste it into another. Does that not work for you?

dwg - 2018-05-02

Thank you!   Having copy/paste makes this one one of my favorite updates so far.

Feature request:
Copy/paste a section to a different macro.
OR
Ability to modify code in notepad++ and paste back to Macro Editor

It looks like this update is really really close... I can select all lines of the macro, click Copy and I can then paste it in to Notepad++.     I can't currently paste from Notepad++ back to a macro.

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