We do a lot of sports rosters and print them on the back of our shirts. Depending on the event we can have hundreds of different teams and we like to bold each team name. We are doing this manually right now and it's exhausting.
Is there a way in Corel to bold all the school names at once?
That's something that might be possible to do with a macro. It would depend on how the document is structured.
Is each school name and list of players its own text shape?
What we do is create a large text box and paste the text from a notepad file. Then we space the teams out as needed but it is all editable text.
In the notepad document, are there blank lines between the schools?
How is it you receive the information from the schools?
It depends how we receive the names. Sometimes it's word, excel, etc. We put the names into notepad and from there I copy and paste everything into corel. You cannot bold in notepad so everything comes as plain text. I'm just hoping there is a way to bold all the school names in corel much quicker than selecting each one.
The reason I ask is because if there is a blank line before each school in your text file, then someone like Eskimo (I don't have the knowledge) can write a macro (or JavaScript in the new version I suspect) that can first bold the line following a blank line, then loop back and remove the blank lines if required (or use a style that has space above if the blank lines are removed).
I use to do similar posters but I am using another application and use tagged text for it. It simply comes in formatted (after the first time setting up paragraph styles). This then is the template for other sports poster lists. The lists sent are also in a variety of formats, it all hits Excel which then outputs the tagged text.
Yes, when we receive the notepad the teams are separated by a blank line. I would love if there was a service who could write the macro for us. I just don't know of any service or how to do something like that. Any info on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Here's a video showing a macro used right after pasting text from a plain text editor.
VIDEO: bold lines after blank lines 01
That is a quick-and-dirty macro; not trying to be brilliant. I haven't tested it on anything larger than that to see if it will handle it gracefully.
If you are willing to share one of your CorelDRAW documents - for example, the one that you used to create the image shown in your opening post - then I would be willing to take a look at it. I'd like to see how you are doing the formatting for paragraphs, line breaks, etc.
You could send that to me directly by e-mail.
I sent you an email. Thanks!!