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Getting Started with Macros

Macro Editor

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How To

Using variables

Finding and modifying objects

Creating new page content

Asking for user input

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Using binary data

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Onetastic Macro Documentation > Getting Started with Macros

Getting Started with Macros

Macros are small programs that can be used to perform simple repetitive tasks in OneNote very quickly. The idea is similar to macros in other Office applications which use VBA language. OneNote does not support VBA and Onetastic add-in provides a simple macro language and an editor to build macros.

The main mechanism under which macros operate is as following:

  1. Read data from OneNote (e.g. page content or notebook/section/page hierarchy)
  2. Modify this data
  3. Save the data back to OneNote

Macro Structure

A macro consist of a list of statements which may look like this:

foreach ($Paragraph in QueryObjects("Paragraph", GetCurrentPage())) if (String_Contains($Paragraph.author, "John")) $Paragraph.highlightColor = "yellow"

The above macro will highlight all paragraphs that is last edited by someone named John.

Reference

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Hierarchy Objects

Page Objects

Other Objects

Functions

Array Functions

Color Functions

Data Store Functions

Date/Time Functions

Dialog Box Functions

Macro Execution Functions

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Object Functions

Special Functions

String Functions

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