None

The None default setting does nothing to the textbox that contains the current Macro token.

Delete Box

The Delete Box setting deletes the current textbox.

If the macro token is located inside an InDesign table, the Delete Box option deletes the entire table object in which the macro token is located.

Delete Group

Using the Delete Group setting will also delete all objects (not only text boxes) which are grouped to the current textbox.

If the macro token is located inside an InDesign table, the Delete Group option deletes the parent textbox of the table in which that macro token is located.

Delete Layer

The Delete Layer setting causes the deletion of all the objects that are located in the same layer and the same page as the textbox containing the source Macro Token (this does not delete the layer, just the objects located on it).

Requires QuarkXPress 2016-2024 or InDesign

Delete Page

The Delete Page setting causes the deletion of  the page on which is located the textbox containing the source Macro Token (this deletes the actual document page, not only the objects on it).

For testing testing/debugging purposes, you can use the Keep Pages diary generation option to delete all objects on the page, and leave a marker that the page is to be deleted, instead of deleting the actual page.

Requires QuarkXPress 2016-2024 or InDesign

Modify Box

These options are used to modify the box attributes of textboxes, such as background color and shade, as well as frame color, thickness and style.

This group of options also appears in the saras advanced change actions and the current month and current week minicalendar options.

Modify Text in Box

Using the Modify Text in Box option is used to modify the overall text attributes of textboxes, such as the number of columns, the gutter width, the vertical alignment, the first baseline alignment, and the text inset, as shown in the screenshot on the right.

Requires QuarkXPress 2016-2024 or InDesign

Change to Picture Box

Using the Change to PictureBox option displays the picturebox alignment editor, shown on the right.

➢Note that when using QuarkXPress and the None alignment, your output file must have at least 2 item styles defined, and that the None alignment cannot be used on a textbox that uses the No Style object item style.

This editor is used to specify the position, scale and other options, related to replacing the current textbox (the one where the macro token was located) by a picture box.

The inserted graphics file's full path name is determined by the value of sRESULT.

Importing multi-page documents

If you are inserting a PDF or an AI document, then you can also specify which PDF bounding box to use.

If you are inserting an INDD (InDesign document), then you can specify the crop options to use, as shown in the image on the right. This option is only available when using InDesign, obviously.

Change Z-Order

within the same layer

Using the Change Z-Order option allows you to specify that the resulting action should be to change the z-Order of the textbox containing the current macro token (ie. make the textbox appear if front of, or behind, other objects of the same layer).

➢The available z-order changes are shown on the right.

As specified above, and as is the case for saras, the z-order change only occurs within the same layer, as the position of each layer in the list of layers determines the relative z-position of objects on each layer (that is to say the objects of a given layer are either all in front of, or all behind, all the objects of any other layer).