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Splitting asUnder

I am considering splitting UnderTheHood into about 10 smaller applications.
Initial thoughts can be found Here.
Your comments are invited.
My motivation comes from two major sources:
(1) Lily Chambers has shown me the wisdom of offering a smaller application as a pay-per-download item.
(2) I am finding a 2MB template a heavy burden in terms of maintenance and documentation.
By spending some splitting Under asunder I believe that I will gain time and money in the long run.

New web page, products SPLIT!

In my ongoing development, I have decided to split Under The Hood into about two dozen modules.
As I carve out the territory I'll be documenting each macro in each module.

You can visit http://torontomacros.com/underindex.html to see the latest offerings.

Online definitions

I have implemented three new functions with associated macros. Look in the definitions menu of the Under toolbar.

Use is straightforward: Click in a word (you don't need to select the entire word) and choose one of the online sources. Your default browser should pop up with the definition of that word.

Colouring characters, words & paragraphs

I have augmented UnderTheHood with a Colours toolbar.
The four supporting macros are:

1. A colour-picker that allows you to assign colours to a series of command buttons. The highest (rightmost) button you click will be the extent of the colours saved to your INI file.

2. Three macros which apply the series of colours cyclically to characters, words or paragraphs in your selection.

And yes, I will be migrating this to Excel, Publisher and so on.

Count Frames

Under.zip (XInfo) "CountFrames" - Display a count of the number of frames in the current selection or document.

Microsoft Word no longer promtes Frames, but many legacy documents hold them; some current documents too, since users continue long in old habits.

Part of the macro set " CountFrames ", " DeleteAllFrames ", " FrameGoBackward ", " FrameGoForward ", " FrameGoToFirst ", " FrameGoToLast .

"DeleteAllFrames" – Delete all frames in the current selection or document.

"FrameGoBackwards" – Selects the previous frame in the current selection or document, moving towards the start of the document.

"FrameGoForward" – Selects the next frame in the current selection or document, moving towards the end of the document.

"FrameGoToFirst" – Selects the first frame in the current selection or document, at the start of the document.

"FrameGoToLast" – Selects the last frame in the current selection or document, at the end of the document.

RebuildTable

Under.zip (XTable) "RebuildTable" – rebuilds a single table by issuing a Convert-To-text followed by a Convert-To-Table command from the Table menu. Uses the Tab character as the delimiter.