Re: Macro for reverse order printing

[Judith Wisdom <wisdom -at- UDCEMAIL -dot- UDC -dot- UPENN -dot- EDU>]

THIS IS THE MACRO I PROMISED TO FORWARD--THE ONE WRITTEN BY ONE VERY KIND
AND COMPETENT MAN.  IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM.  HOPE IT HELPS SOMEONE ELSE OUT
THERE.

Judith Wisdom wisdom -at- udcemail -dot- udc -dot- upenn -dot- edu

> Judith,

> The following should do what you want.  It is a quick and dirty solution,
> (right off the top of my pointy little head) so don't expect great
> performance.  Basically, what you can do is create a macro to print each
> page, one at a time, starting with the last page.  It will probably take a
> *long* time to print this way, so it is going to be a trade off.

> First, create the macro by doing the following.  Do what's to the left; my
> comments come after the semi-colon:

> Press <Ctrl-F10>            ;This is the define marco key
> Type: pb and press <Enter>  ;This names the macro. I used "pb" for "print
>                              backwords"
> Type: "print backwards" and press <Enter>  ;this is the macro description
> Press <Shift-F7>            ;
> Press 2                     ;this prints a single page
> Press <Page Up>             ;
> Press <Ctrl-F10>            ;the ends the macro definition

> Now, what you want to do is go to the last page of your document and start
> printing, one page at a time, from the last page to the first.  To do this,
> do the following:

> Press <Home>, <Home>, <Down>  ;this moves you to the end of the document
> Note what the page number of the last page is.  ;This is the number of
>                                                  times that you want to
>                                                  repeat the macro.
> Press <Esc>                   ;this is the repeat key in WordPerfect

> Type the number of times you want to repeat the macro.  DO NOT PRESS
> <ENTER> AFTER YOU TYPE THE NUMBER!!!

> Press <Alt-F10>               ;this invokes your macro
> Type pb and press <Enter>     ;the print backwards macro should print the
>                                last page, then move up one page, print
>                                that page, and so on as many times as the
>                                number you entered for the repeat value.

> That's it.  Give it a try, if you think it will do what you want.  If you
> have any problems, let me know and I'll try to help.  If I think of a
> simpler or more efficient way, I'll let you know.

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