Sergio,
Thanks, the quotation marks were indeed the source of my problem.
Unforunately, the manual does not make that clear.
George
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Sergio responded:
Its only the quotations..
to use a macro you need to write `1' , not '1' ( " ` " is in some
keyboards a "french grave accent" or something like that)
Sergio
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