A quick way to count page breaks.

[loulesko]

Hey there, can anyone give me a quick way to count the number of page breaks in a document. Preferably without using the Find All command, but if that's the only way no problem.

Thanks
Lou

[Kino]

You could check for all characters in the document but that is much more time-consuming. So you’d better use Find All.

Page/Section break is represented by \f in PowerFind Pro mode. To exclude false page breaks in note area, you have to specify -am as where argument.

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$n = Find All '\f', 'E', '-am'
exit $n

Or you don’t want breaks to be selected? If so, use the following.

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 $doc = Document.active
$sels = $doc.text.findAll '\f', 'E', '-am'
exit $sels.count

[loulesko]

Brilliant Kino.

I noticed that you have contributed a lot of awesome macros to the macro repository. Thanks for all your fantastic work, generous people like you, make life for people like me easier. Your work is very much appreciated.

Lou

[martin]

Kino is indeed a generous NWP macro superstar! We're all very lucky to have him as a Nisus user

[loulesko]

Kino,

Can you tell me where you found the documentation for the where argument in your find statement. I looked everywhere for it and I can't find it and I'd like to learn more about it.

thanks
Lou

[Kino]

Can you tell me where you found the documentation for the where argument in your find statement.

Open Nisus Macro Reference.zrtf and search for “The where argument” which will be found in Find and Replace section under COMMANDS.

[loulesko]

Thanks, I had an older version of the macro reference.

Lou

[martin]

One can always view the current Macro Reference by using the menu Help > Macro Language Reference from within NWP.