That's more or less what I had in mind, to expand the first paragraph of
the section on "Downloading macros to import". The existing sentence
(after the semi-colon) there is a bit cryptic to anyone who's never done
this before. The confusing part is "choose the macro to edit" -- the
reader is thinking, "Huh? I'm trying to paste in a new macro, not edit
an existing one." Possibly a mini-example would help?

--Jean

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 21:04 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> My thought when I looked at it was to literally add a section 
> something like:
> 
> You see a macro on a web site and you want to copy the text and paste it 
> into your copy so that you can run it.
> 
> 1. you need to decide where to store it (which library, which module, 
> why does it matter).
> 
> 2. How to do this (step by step)
> 
> 3. Now, run it.
> 
> Perhaps this can be at the end, or, do you prefer the beginning before 
> they get started.
> 
> 
> On 10/07/2010 06:50 AM, TJ Frazier wrote:
> > On 10/7/2010 01:23, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> >> Yes, that's the latest file. I appreciate the time problem. If you
> >> can't, you can't. Or maybe TJ will step in and draft something?
> >>
> >> --Jean
> >
> > Maybe :-) The subject is already mentioned in the section, 
> > "Downloading macros to import". Maybe another sentence there? --/tj/
> >
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 00:51 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> >>> Working 12+ hours days, but, will see what I can do.
> >>>
> >>> I assume that this is still the latest from which I should work...
> >>>
> >>> http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/gs3/V3_3_revisions/0113GS3-GettingStartedWithMacros_JHW_20101003.odt/view
> >>>  
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 10/06/2010 10:33 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> >>>> Andrew,
> >>>>
> >>>> I think the Getting Started with Macros chapter needs a short addition
> >>>> to explain how to put someone else's macro code (copied, say, from an
> >>>> email or a blog) into a macro on my computer. To apply the info that's
> >>>> in the chapter needs a lot of puzzling out by the naive reader 
> >>>> (such as
> >>>> myself). This could be part of, or follow, the section "Writing macros
> >>>> without the recorder". Could you write something suitable?
> >>>>
> >>>> --Jean
> >>>>
> >>
> >
> 




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