See picture below to see what I am talking about with vertical selection. If you copy and paste the expanded macro statements into Notepadd++, then press Alt and Shift simultaneously (this is for Windows, I’m not sure about other operating systems), one can vertically select the first 13 columns of text and delete them in one swoop. To edit out the intial lines in Notepad++ is not very hard though because of the ability to utilize vertical selection. the 59 0 M> part)? It is useful to debug the expanded code because when debugging you can step through the expanded code but not the MACRO code. Now this is a trivial problem to fix, but what if you have 100’s of line of code and want to edit out all of the beginning text before the commands (e.g. When expanded, the printed statement in the output viewer appears like this 56 0 M> To start off with a brief example, I have created a very simple MACRO that has an obvious error in it. Paste your text, and place the caret at the start of the first line. Notepad++ macros work on lines, and having word wrap enabled might interfere with your results. Make sure that you have the Word Wrap option disabled. Here I will highlight one instance which I have found Notepad++ to be really helpful, editing printed MACRO statements by using vertical selection. Example: Notepad++ Macros that Run on All Lines. Sometimes though I utlize the text editor Notepadd++ for various tasks that are difficult to accomplish in the SPSS editor. The version of the SPSS syntax editor is really nice and I use it for most of daily analysis.
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