Macro to inventory Floating Contents

[phspaelti]

Thanks to Eric I once again find myself wasting time trying to write macros that manipulate floating contents. The macro commands for this purpose are uneven to say the least.
Here at least one result. The following is a macro that inventories all the floating contents in a given file. For each object it will print out what it is, where it is, how big and other relevant information. It makes a list ordered by type, and also inventories contents inside groups (and groups inside groups, etc.)

Get All Floating Content.nwm

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[NisusUser]

I'm glad to have had a role in your creative processes

I appreciate the fact that you so freely share the results of your skills with us other NWP users. Thanks!

[martin]

Philip just linked to this thread, and while his macro is neat and useful, there's a built-in way to do this now. Version 3 can show you a list of all floating shapes, where you're free to click through them at your leisure. Just use these two menus in succession:

Tools > Shapes > Select All Shapes
Edit > Select > Show Selection in Results Window

Automating that as a macro is easy enough:

Code: Select all

Menu ":Tools:Shapes:Select All Shapes"
Menu ":Edit:Select:Show Selection in Results Window"