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I have discovered a reasonable workaround for BasicMaker multiline strings.


Sub Main
Dim lStr$
lStr$ = ""

lStr$ = lStr$ & "This is a long block of text that I want to fill "
lStr$ = lStr$ & "into a form field. I need to make sure I pay attention "
lStr$ = lStr$ & "to spacing and carriage return ...

My apologies, but that doesn't answer my question. Here's an example of a multiline string:

"I am a string that contains carriage returns.

As you can see, I also contain more than one paragraph.

I also contain special characters like %, \, /, $ and @.

Everything from the first double quote to ...

Thank you for responding. Perhaps I was not clear about what I would like to achieve. I would like to store a multi-line string in a variable so it can be programmatically manipulated. Smart Text entries, as far as I can tell (and perhaps I'm wrong), are not variables that I could insert ...

Is it possible to create a variable as a multiline string in TextMaker?
If so, how?
Thanks

How can I create a multiline string in BasicMaker?
Thanks in advance.

It took me a while to find [Hamburger Menu] -> Select -> Deselect all records.
Problem solved!
Sorry I didn't dig around more.

Following up again, I have been able to work around the fields issue in a couple of ways.
1) Open my .xlsx file in PlanMaker and export as .dbf. This method allows quite a bit of control.
2) Open my .xlsx file in PlanMaker and export as .pmdx. This works for me as well - all fields are correctly ...

I have purchased Softmaker Office (full version) and installed on both Windows and Linux. The Windows version respects field names for mail merge, the Linux version does not.

I purchased the full version with the belief that Mail Merge would function on Linux with my existing, voluminous data ...

As a followup, I can work around this by simply choosing the record I want from "Print Merge".
However, attempting this brought up another problem.
For this experiment I'm using an Excel file (.xlsx) with the first row as headers. I'm using a .dotm template with about 65 merge fields.
TextMaker does ...

Hello, I generally do NOT use mail merge to populate more than one document at a time. However, the data I use consists of thousands of records. I ALWAYS want to use one and only one at a time. I have not yet found a shortcut to deselect/unselect all recipients, so I can choose only the one I want ...