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Formulas

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Smarter Copy-Paste to Protect Your Data

You work across environments — test, production, staging — and you copy more than text. Sometimes it’s formulas. Sometimes it’s data that shouldn’t mo...

Roland Lannuzel
Roland Lannuzel
July 15, 2025 1 min read

4D 4D Write Pro Formula Security

Formulas

Tables

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4D Write Pro: Manage Empty Datasources!

Since the tables in 4D Write Pro can be populated by datasources, numerous functions have been added to personalize them as much as possible. These in...

Roland Lannuzel
Roland Lannuzel
July 18, 2024 1 min read

4D Write Pro Table Word processor

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Formulas

Programming

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v20 R3

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4D Write Pro: Assign Names to Formulas

In 4D Write Pro documents, formulas are crucial and contribute significantly to their functionality. Previously, these formulas could be represented a...

Roland Lannuzel
Roland Lannuzel
October 20, 2023 1 min read

4D Write Pro Formula Word processor

Elements

Formulas

v19 R7

v20

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4D Write Pro: User-friendly Display of Formulas

Formulas are an integral part of 4D Write Pro documents. They allow the integration of a lot of information coming from the database. Creating documen...

Roland Lannuzel
Roland Lannuzel
October 17, 2022 1 min read

4D Write Pro Formula UI Word processor

Elements

Formulas

v19 R3

v20

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4D Write Pro: Where are my formulas?

When a 4D Write Pro document contains external elements resulting from expressions or formulas, they are visible when the "Display expressions" mode i...

Roland Lannuzel
Roland Lannuzel
October 8, 2021 1 min read

4D Write Pro Formula Word processor

Authentication (Security)

Formulas

Programming

v18 R4

v19

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4D Write Pro – More control when using formulas

As a 4D Write Pro user, you've most likely used expressions (or more recently, formulas) to automatically fill in certain parts of your documents. The...

Roland Lannuzel
Roland Lannuzel
August 4, 2020 1 min read

4D Write Pro Formula Programming Word processor

Formulas

Programming

v18 R2

v19

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4D Write Pro and formulas

With 4D v18 R2, 4D Write Pro is able to manage formula objects inside documents. To do so, four new commands have been created: WP Get formulas, WP In...

Roland Lannuzel
Roland Lannuzel
February 10, 2020 1 min read

4D Write Pro Formula Word processor

Formulas

v17 R4

v18

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4D Write Pro now supports virtual structures!

Understanding end user needs and creating user-friendly interfaces are high priorities for every application developers. And as you may know, the 4D ...

Roland Lannuzel
Roland Lannuzel
February 21, 2019 1 min read

4D Write Pro Word processor

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