Multicolumn Printing (Text Flow)?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 11/16/04 1:49 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> Yep, unchecking "Visible" in the properties box does not keep the 
> "click" command from working.  Excellent.
> 
> And thank you, this is much better than what I was doing before.
> 
> BTW, a minor speed enhancement:
> 
>>>> set the htmltext of fld 2 to the htmltext of word theLastWd + 1 \
>>>>       to (the number of words in fld 1) of fld 1
>>>>   delete word theLastWd + 1 to (the number of words in fld 1) of fld 1
> 
> 
> place a line before this like:
> 
> put the number of words in fld 1 into wcnt
> 
> then replace "then number of words in fld 1" in both lines with wcnt
> 
> That way, it doesn't have to count them all twice.

Good point. For that matter, unless you are working with huge chunks of 
text that would eat up memory, you could also skip the line that deletes 
the unseen text out of the fields. Since printing will ignore it, the 
hidden text won't matter and it would save another line of script 
calculation.

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