Tips & Tricks
[The most recent tips
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Section
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Automating
documents and tasks
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- Create
a vertical toolbar with text labels (instead of graphic
icons) to quickly access your favorite folders, templates, and
files. See How to Create a Vertical Toolbar
with Text Buttons to Access Your Favorite Folders, Templates
and Files
(a PDF document; 09/17/07, 150Kb).
- Using the merge
(a/k/a "mail merge") feature.
- Insert 'boilerplate'
and other repeating items with QuickWords, styles, macros, floating
cells, and (in WP10+) text variables, and the Corel ClipBook.
- Automatically associate
a personalized keyboard or menu with a template so that the
keyboard or menu will appear automatically when you open a new
document. You can even have it appear only when you use a specific
feature, such as a Header, Footnote, Outline, etc.
- If you want to easily
print a document or an envelope to a different printer from the
one normally used to print your document, then return the printer
setting to the default, see this
thread on WordPerfect Universe. It demonstrates a couple
of macros for the purpose. (The macro code can be copied into
WordPerfect; see here for instructions.
Or see the final download post here by Klaus Pfeiffer for the ready-to-use
expanded version for WP8+.) See also "How to quickly
change printers (WP8+) back to the default after printing
to a different printer or faxing the document."
- The standard Find and
Replace dialog has to be dragged from its position in the center
of the screen if you want to see the item found or the item to
be replaced. Moreover, it does not provide an easy way to replace
(or format) just certain instances of an item. Finally, having
to repeatedly open the F&R dialog (Edit, Find and Replace,
or <F2>) to find or replace the same item is tedious. Here's a way to enhance the Find
and Replace feature.
- For new users: Macros:
The "Robots" of WordPerfect, by Gordon McComb.
Also see: Supercharging
your WordPerfect keyboard and Speed
Writing with WordPerfect by Stephen E. Harris, and Gordon's
Creating
Macros that Pause for User Input.
- Automate your current
session tasks with a QuickMacro.
- How to stamp
a document with "Draft," "Copy," or other
identifiers.
- Convert mailing addresses to upper case without
punctuation.
- Here's how to quickly
fill up Avery® sheets to
make duplicate return address labels, shipping labels, business
cards, etc.
- Using two printer trays:
Print or merge
your letterhead from one printer tray and the second sheets from
another tray, and keep the same formatting from record to record.
- Filling
in forms using WordPerfect.
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Section
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Automating
templates
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- Automating
WordPerfect Templates.pdf
- Revised 10/26/07; 542,668 bytes, 40 pages. For WordPerfect
8 and later versions. Left-click on the link to read it online,
or right-click to download it, then choose "Save Target
As..." or similar browser command.
- See the Table
of Contents.
- Automating WordPerfect
Templates is
a very comprehensive Adobe PDF document about creating prompts
(with WordPerfect's Prompt Builder), bookmarks,
and template macros (optional) in a WP8 or later version
template to help you automate templates. It is particularly useful
as a "How To" guide on creating letterheads or other
automated documents such as invoices, fax cover sheets, memos,
etc., that are based on a custom template. Even if you don't
need to employ all the features covered in the article, it can
serve as a reference for future use.
- New users: The word "template"
has a specific meaning in WordPerfect.
- See the first section
of Automating WordPerfect Templates, "What is a template?"
Many users often mistakenly believe a template is any
file they use over and over. This can lead to confusion -- especially
when seeking help from advanced users, who know it is a separate
file on disk. Quoting from the article:
- In WordPerfect,
a template is a document on your disk with a special filename
extension, ".wpt," where the "t" stands for
"template". Think of it as a stencil or model that
you can use to make copies of the original. ... Like other word
processors, every document you create in WordPerfect is based
on a template. Even new, empty documents with names like Document1
are based on a special template, called the default
template. ... Templates—whether default or custom—define
formatting and program options for a document such as margins,
tab settings, styles, menus, toolbars, and keyboard definitions.
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- Jim Shackelford has
written a basic tutorial on templates, posted here.
- "Trigger"
a macro from inside a template
to play automatically when specific events occur as you use the
template, such as when you print the document. For example, you
could automatically run the spell
checker before printing a document.
- If the macro doesn't
play in such an automated template or WordPerfect Project, see
the Notes
section on the "Trigger
a macro..." page.
- Automatically
insert the current date as (unchanging) text (not as a code) in a letterhead or other template.
- Load
a letter (or
any other template document) with a mouseclick.
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Section
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Formatting
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Here's an easy to read and entertaining reference
for those of us who are not professional designers of cards,
stationery, brochures, and similar items. (You can also look
inside the book on the Amazon site.)
For those interested in type at the individual
character level, here's a combined edition of The Non-Designer's
Design Book (above) and The Non-Designer's Type Book:
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- [Sticky>>]
What is Reveal Codes? See
here for brief overview. Most long-time WordPerfect users,
who have also used other products, would probably tell you it
is one of the most important reasons -- if not the main reason
-- they use WordPerfect. Once you learn the power of Reveal Codes
(<Alt+F3>) you'll never want to be without it. [Also see
Understanding
the fundamental difference between (Microsoft) Word and WordPerfect.]
- If the actual codes
seem cryptic, a list of code descriptions can be found here:
Answer ID 756420
at Http://support.corel.com.
However, the next tip might be more useful:
- In WordPerfect 11 and
later versions you can print a formatted document, then print
it again with File, Print, Advanced tab, "Print Reveal Codes."
You can then compare both documents and see which codes are active
and what they do to the text. For even more fun: With Reveal
Codes open, delete a code (use the <Delete> key or simply
drag the code from the Reveal Codes window) to see the effect
it had on the document; then use <Ctrl+Z> to restore the
code before deleting the next code, and so on. [Thanks to Roy
"lemoto" Lewis for the latter tip.]
- Beside allowing you
to see what is going on, another good reason to keep Reveal Codes
open (you can minimize the size of the Reveal Codes window pane
by dragging downward on the bar that separates it from the main
document) is this: Some macros that move the cursor item-by-item
(characters and/or format codes) require that Reveal Codes be
left open during the macro's execution. If a macro doesn't seem
to work properly, try opening Reveal Codes. [N.B.: Macro writers
should add code to their macros to open Reveal Codes if their
macros must perform such operations. A recent thread on WordPerfect
Universe contains a snippet that will do this and restore things
to the user's preference after the macro is finished: See here.]
- [Sticky>>]
Want to replace underlines with italics?
Redline with bold? Or augment
an attribute -- a text format code pair -- throughout the document
(e.g., change italics to bold italics)?
Or even remove all text to which an attribute (or combination
of attributes) has been applied? See the Replace Codes macro
here,
which can do these things from a single pop up menu.
- Here's a thread on
WordPerfect Universe about using the Table
of Authorities feature.
- Ever wonder what those
items in Format, Line, Other Codes do? See here.
- Numbering table rows, wrapping text
around a table, sorting tables, and other WordPerfect table tips.
- Outline fonts: If you
select text and click Format, Font, Outline the text will be
printed in outline form (i.e., with borders around the
characters and with no fill in the characters' strokes). However,
unless you use a font that was designed to display on acreen
in outline form, such as the Corel-supplied Swiss721 BlkOul BT,
it will show on screen only as a normal font. You will need to
print the page to see the outline font. [Note that, more often
than not, Publishing to PDF will not reproduce the outline font,
except for those fonts that can display the outline form on screen.
Workaround: Use something like PDF995
to produce a PDF with the outline font.] [Thanks to Charles Rossiter
for these tips.]
- Need help with page numbering? See here.
- Need to create a Table
of Authorities? See Corel's support site, Article ID 753748.
- What are those [Ignore...]
codes on my page? Why won't my formatting take effect? Answer:
Usually, when you get an [Ignore...] code it means that WordPerfect
cannot do something at that point because it is either not allowed,
superfluous and not needed, or some other code is interfering
with or taking precedence over your manually entered codes. Open
Reveal Codes (<Alt+F3>) and check all format codes that
precede the current location to see if there are any that might
be taking precedence.
- [TIP: You might also
have to edit the initial [Open Style: DocumentStyle] code
at the top of the document (double-click it in Reveal Codes)
to check for hidden formatting that might be causing the problem.
This style code contains many of the current document's formatting
codes from the default template
or custom template, and it might have been edited or changed
from its usual setting.]
- Need to convert numbers
or currency to their text equivalent? For example, you can convert
$123.45 to One Hundred Twenty-Three and 45/100 Dollars ($123.45)
with Mike Koenecke's ConvNum
macro. You can convert normal numbers, dollars, pounds, euros,
yen, etc.
- It is possible to set
decimal font sizes (10.5 point, 12.7 point, etc.) -- and even
font sizes larger than 72 points -- from the Text property bar.
For such fractional font sizes, click inside the font size field,
type the desired decimal size (in tenths of a point),
then press <Enter>. (You must press <Enter> and not
use <Tab> or mouse-click out of this field; if you do,
the setting won't "stick." You can also set a decimal
size with Format, Font, Size.) Similarly, for larger font sizes
(up to 1199 points), click inside the font size field, type the
larger font size, and press <Enter>.
- Here are several methods that create
check boxes with an "x"
or check mark inside them.
- Can you set a "default
font" for all documents -- existing and new -- or
just for new ones? See this
thread at WordPerfect Universe (see also the other suggestions
at the end of the thread -- especially those about NOT using
File>Document>Default Font).
- Need to create a horizontal
bar symbol (an "over bar" or "overline")
over a letter, such as an "X-bar"? Click Formatting,
Typesetting, Overstrike and type the letter in the field (e.g.,
"x"). Then press <Ctrl+W>. Look for symbol 1,21
and choose it. Click Insert & Close, then OK. The symbol
should appear in your document. In Reveal Codes you'll see an
[Ovrstk] code which can be selected and turned into a QuickWord
for easy access later. (Thanks to Kenneth Hobson for this tip.)
For another method, see "Continuous Overbar on Multiple
Characters" in this
thread on WordPerfect Universe.
- Using styles
in WordPerfect. (What's the difference between styles and
templates? See here.)
- Need
to create page numbering for Chapters or Sections like that found
in many books? That is, do you need to create a page number at
the bottom of the first page of a chapter or section with
remaining page numbers at the top of subsequent pages?
Here's how.
- WordPerfect's Publish
to PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format)? Here are some
tips.
- Saving custom styles
to your default (or other) template; importing custom styles
from other documents (even ones you didn't create); and removing
new styles from your template when you don't need them anymore:
See here.
- Adding emphasis to
text: How to create custom paragraph/page
border or fill styles.
- Automatic paragraph
numbering, outlines, and numbered lists.
- Need to create numbered
paragraphs or item lists automatically so that numbers change
when you add or delete items? Tired of WordPerfect turning automatic
paragraph numbering on whenever you type a "number-plus-tab"
(e.g., 1.<tab>) to create a list? This is a QuickCorrect
feature, called "QuickBullets." Here's how to quickly
turn this feature on/off, along
with several other tips
to remove them, change them, create new outline styles (such
as checkbox lists), or convert them to ordinary text.
- Here's how to create
or modify outlines [e.g., create fixed-width paragraph numbers
and other custom-formatted paragraph numbers and styles (001,
002, etc., or [1], [2], etc.)]. Also, see the PDF document (from
the University of Iowa Colleg of Law Library), "Creating
an Outline Using WordPerfect."
- Need a new bullet
outline 'style'? Create custom bullets
for your outlines.
- Mark a Paragraph heading
style or Character style for automatic
inclusion in a Table of Contents.
- Reduce
spacing between a paragraph heading and the following body text.
- Need "upside-down"
text on the same page as normal text? (For example, for 1/2-
or 1/4-folded cards or mailers.) You can rotate text 90, 180,
or 270 degrees if it is placed inside a text box.
- Create the "upside-down"
portion by selecting the text and clicking on Insert,
Text Box.
- Left-click on any of
the box's eight drag handles to resize it.
- When the mouse pointer
changes to a four-headed arrow over a drag handle, left-click
to drag the box to positon it.
- Click outside the box
to de-select it, then right-click on top of the box again and
choose Content, Rotate 180 degrees, OK.
- (Other right-click
options let you change the border to <none>, anchor the
box to the page, specify a position, etc.)
- Here's how to replace
multiple instances of one font with another font. (See also
the Replace macros from Ron Hirsch on that page that can replace, remove,
or augment font attributes (bold, italics, etc.), or change font
sizes.
- Here's how to create
text labels outside a document's page margins, along the
edge of the page(s).
- Convert lower case
words to UPPER case, or vice versa: You can click on Edit, Convert
Case... on the main WordPerfect menu, but there are easier ways
to do this:
- You can convert case
with the click of a toolbar button. There's a "Case Toggle"
button available you can add to a toolbar or property bar, which
will convert the current lower case word (or selected words)
to upper case, or vice versa. Here's how to add it:
- Right-click on the
main toolbar, then click Edit from the context menu. Under 'Feature
categories,' choose the Edit category, and then choose the Case
Toggle feature from the Feature list. Click 'Add Button,' drag
the new button if desired to a new location, then click OK.
- You may want to also
do the same thing with some text selected first, to have
the button available on the Selected Text property bar as well
as the main toolbar. Select some text, then right-click the (now
visible) Selected Text property bar (not the main toolbar), and
follow the same steps as above.
- Note that there's an
Initial Capitals button available, too, which you might want
to add in the same manner to both bars.
- If you use the default
Windows keyboard, pressing <Ctrl+K> will toggle the current
word or selected text. If you use the DOS keyboard, you can assign the Case Toggle feature to
<Ctrl+K> (or any other available keys).
- Footnotes
and Endnotes:
Setting or changing margins, numbers, font sizes and other formatting.
Includes a method to hide all note numbers.
- Place
endnotes at the end of each chapter, subdocument, or other section (or any
place you want them), instead of at the very end of the document.
- How to create even
page and odd page identification using the two types of headers
and footers (A and B). You can even create a third
type of header or footer (Header C or Footer C) with this
little trick.
- Indent a paragraph
with dot leaders.
- Need
to reset page margins on page 2 (if there is a page 2) back to
the one-inch default or some other setting? Here's
how to do it in either the current document or in a template.
- Need to make specific
words bold (or italicize them, etc.) throughout the current document?
Click Edit, Find and Replace. Type (or copy) the text in the
Find box. Then click inside the Replace With box and type (or
copy) the text in the Replace with box. While inside the Replace
With box, click Replace, Font [on the Find and Replace menu]
and then click Bold and OK. Then click Replace (or Replace All).
That'll change the original text to bold or replace the original
text with some other text that is bold. [Thanks to "Robin"
at WordPerfect Universe
for this tip.]
- Related tips -
- To highlight words
based on words stored in a master list of words/phrases, or typed
into a pop-up menu, see the HiLiteDoc
macro.
- Text formatted with
bold, italics, highlighting, etc., can be replaced or augmented
with other format attributes using Ron Hirsch's Replace
Codes macro on the Other Autors
page.
- Are your quotation
marks "straight" and not "curly" (typographical)?
If Tools,
QuickCorrect, SmartQuotes
settings have been turned off (e.g., "Use double quotation
marks as you type" is unchecked), this may be the problem.
Editing macros or performing some merge operations can turn SmartQuotes
off, and the new setting can remain in effect for future sessions.
You can turn SmartQuotes back on manually or with a macro such
as the one in QC.ZIP (which archive
also contains a macro to convert existing regular double
or single quote marks to typographical quote marks, or vice versa).
- Need a different look in your document's
headings (not to be confused with page headers)?
- Copy the "Stepped"
styles directly from the documents in Headings.zip
(which demonstrate these styles) into your default template,
or use the manual procedure explained in the documents to create
your own versions.
- For automatically numbered
Legal-, Standard-, and Roman-style Headings, see here.
- To set up headings
to the left of the page's body text (such as found in many non-fiction
books and manuals -- and simulated here on this website page),
you can use WP's columns feature:
- Click Format, Columns.
Choose 2 columns, then click the "Parallel" radio button.
Set the first column's width (e.g., 1.5"), and the middle
space between coulmns (e.g., 0.25").
- With the cursor in
the first column, enter your formatted section heading (e.g.,
use Heading 2 style from the Styles drop list on the property
bar). Jump over to the second column with <Ctrl+Enter>
and enter the body text for that section, using hard returns
between paragraphs as usual.
- When you are finished
with that section's body text, jump to the next section's first
column with <Ctrl+Enter>, enter a new heading (or graphic
image), jump to the second column and enter body text, etc.
- To discontinue ("stop")
columns -- for example, to add a full-width heading such as a
chapter title (perhaps using Heading 1 style) between such sections
of columnar body text -- click Format, Columns, Discontinue.
- See also: Styles
(general information and links to other pages on this site concerning
styles).
- Page numbering techniques:
See this
thead on WordPerfect Universe.
- Using hyphens,
hard hyphens, soft hyphens, and hyphenated soft returns.
- Convert the mailing
address on envelopes or labels to UPPER case.
- Customize the return
address on envelopes with graphics and font attributes.
- How to prevent
long web URLs from moving to the next line as a block (or
text such as e-mail addresses, text separated by dashes, etc.).
- Converting
text into a table and vice versa.
- How to create a Question-and-Answer style.
- Problems with formatting
text after copying it from a web page or other internet source?
If it's a name and address, does WP's envelope feature miss it?
Does it have many strange codes in it? Use this simple Paste
Special trick to help solve the problem by pasting the material
as unformatted text.
- Mixing
landscape and portrait pages:
How to maintain headers, footers, and page numbering at the top
and bottom of all pages when you mix landscape orientation with
portrait.
- Rotating
text to intermediate angles
(e.g., 33 degrees).
- Align
endnotes on the period
(a/k/a/ "full stop") following the endnote number.
- Do you want to remove blue s in e-mail addresses
and web site URLs from your printouts? Get rid of the hypertext
links. Here are some ways to do it in WordPerfect 8/9.
- Mixing
text justification
on the same line without using tabs or spaces, like this
second page header:
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- How to create "Continued on Page x" footers
where "x" is the number of the following page.
- Need to create custom inserts for CD jewel boxes?
WordPerfect 9 has a project template for this, but if your version
does not, here's the procedure. (8/23/99) Also, if you use Avery
CD-ROM labels on the CDs, here's
a way to format them. (12/23/99) And you can get a free utility,
ClickBook
Jr CD Case Creator., to create these inserts.
- Using two
footers simultaneously (one for page number, the other for
separator line and filename, etc.) so that items do not overlap.
- Creating vertically
formatted business cards or labels in WordPerfect.
- Consecutively
numbered labels,
tickets, cards, etc.
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Menus,
toolbars, property bars, and keyboards
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- Menu tips:
- Customize your top menu - how to
add new menu choices, rearrange existing ones, or delete them
from the menu.
- Use a "menu macro"
to play other macros. See Mike Koenecke's MacroMenu.Zip at http://www.macros.koenecke.us/.
It uses a push-button display to make it easy to play any of
your macros.
- Toolbar and property
bar tips:
- If one or more toolbars
or context-sensitive property bars are not visible, ensure that
View, Toolbars, <toobar name>, is enabled (i.e., cheked).
Normally, you will want these enabled at the very least: Property
bar, Application bar (sometimes called the "status bar,"
located at the very bottom of the WordPerfect window), and the
main (or customized) WordPerfect toolbar.
- Users sometimes accidentally
right-click on the Property bar and choose to "Hide Property
Bar." This setting will be retained until you re-enable
all Property bars with View, Toolbar, Property bar. If your Property
bars are missing this might be the cause.
- Create a new
toolbar button to play a macro or use a built-in WordPerfect
feature.
- How to add buttons
to the context-sensitive Property
Bars.
- You can drag
shortcut icons from your desktop to your toolbar.
- For an easy way to
set up a custom vertical toolbar with text buttons
see the "Create a vertical toolbar..." tip above.
- How
to change (edit) the default
toolbar "audiocassette" icon images on the macro buttons
on your toolbar.
- How to create a new, custom
toolbar.
- Too many styles? You
can rename your personal styles by editing them with Format,
Styles, Edit, and include something like a "!" or "_"
or space " " as the first character in the Style's
name. This will sort them at the top of the Styles list and on
the drop list on the Text property bar.
- You can set the
vertical order of your toolbars by choosing the order
in which you activate them with Tools, Settings, Customize, Toolbars
(tab). You may have to deselect existing toolbars, then reselect
them in the proper order (the first you enable with a checkmark
will be topmost, the last will be bottommost) so that their positions
relative to one another will "stick" when you close
WordPerfect. (Note: Not tested in all versions of WordPerfect.)
- Keyboard tips:
- Assign a macro, feature, program,
or string of keystrokes to a key or key combination (i.e., a
"shortcut" or "hot key" such as <Ctrl+1>
or <Alt+Shft+m>). The tip includes a simple method of inserting
accented letters (e.g., é, ô).
- After
typing in ALL CAPS with the <Caps Lock> key enabled --
or if you hit <Caps Lock> by mistake -- you might
find that the next sentences lOOK sOMETHING lIKE tHIS. In WordPerfect,
you can click Tools, QuickCorrect, Format-As-You-Go, and enable
the Caps Fix checkbox. To set Windows XP computers to work
this way in all programs, see here.
- Tired of hitting the
<Insert> key by mistake and toggling Typeover mode "on"?
Here's how to reassign the Typeover
function on your keyboard to another keystroke combination
-- and keep the <Insert> key in Insert mode in WordPerfect.
- Force
WordPerfect to save the current file as
you type,
without having to press a special key or click a button or menu
item. The method can be used along with WordPerfect's automatic
file backup feature.
- "Two-key"
macros can help organize macros under a common keystroke combination.
Press one to play the macro, then another to perform some action.
Useful for inserting accented letters, simulating WordStar double
keystroke commands, etc. (See also the tip
about inserting accented letters without a macro.)
- Make a key do "double duty" by assigning a
macro to it, and make the macro play only if the key is struck
twice.
- Looking for a list
of shortcut keys?
- For a reference list
of navigation and text selection keys that are
used by default in WordPerfect's Windows (CUA) and DOS keyboards,
you can read (left-click) or download (right-click, then Save
Target As) "CUA-DOS.pdf,"
a three-page Adobe PDF file.
- For WordPerfect 11
and later versions you can print a list of current shortcut key
assignments; see Step 2 here.
- For WordPerfect 9,
Corel's KnowledgeBase provides a list here.
Also see the Function Key template, WP9FKEYS,
here in the Library.
- Move back to a previous
cursor location with the blue arrow icon buttons on the main
toolbar. If you don't have them, right-click on the toolbar,
choose "Edit," then under the Feature Categories list
in the Toolbar Editor, choose Edit, then Back (or Forward). Finally,
click the Add Button button. (The newly added button can be dragged
to a new position while the Toolbar Editor is still open.)
- Miscellaneous (related)
tips:
- Here are three
easy ways to play macros, load programs, type keystrokes into
the document, or use built-in WordPerfect features.
- Navigating to your
favorite folders from inside WordPerfect:
- For the current session
(only) you can force WordPerfect to remember the last folder
accessed by clicking on File, Open. Then on the Open File dialog's
menu, click on Edit and enable (i.e., tick) "Change Default
Folder". For the next WordPerfect session, the first folder
opened is the one that is set in Tools, Settings, Files, "Default
document folder". (N.B.: If you do not see a menu in the
Open File dialog, click the icon on the extreme right-hand side
of the dialog.)
- If you add a new subfolder
directly under the standard Favorites folder in Windows and name
it "WordPerfect" (e.g., in Windows XP it would be something
like C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Favorites\WordPerfect), any shortcuts to often-used
folders that you create in that new subfolder will show up in
the Favorites menu in the File, Open and the Insert, File dialogs.
- For an easy way to
set up a custom vertical toolbar with text buttons
see the "Create a vertical toolbar..." tip above.
- Want to remove the
Yahoo! Search bar from WordPerfect X3? Use the "Change"
command from the WordPerfect Office X3 Add/Remove Programs entry
in your Control Panel. Select to modify your install, and then
within the WordPerfect feature tree, de-select the Yahoo! Search
entry. (Or, during initial installation of WordPerfect X3, you
can deselect the option to install it.)
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5:
Miscellaneous
tips and tricks
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- Does your cursor jump
away from the current location whenever you save your document?
Try this: Click on Tools, Reference, choose any menu item, and
when the Reference Tools dialog appears, disable (i.e., clear)
the checkbox, "Auto generate."
- Does WordPerfect think
your document is an Avery label sheet instead of a "normal"
document? This is a known problem on some systems if you have
previously used an Avery label "page definition." See
this
post on WordPerfect Universe.
- When saving a document,
does the cursor move to the bottom of the screen in WordPerfect
11, 12, and X3? Try disabling the "Auto-generate" checkbox
in Tools, Reference.
- Are
underscores (underlines) disappearing on your screen in WordPerfect
-- yet they print? Do the descenders (i.e., the lower
part) on some letters (g, y, q, etc.) appear "cut off"
on screen? What probably is happening is that in effect the underlines
and/or descending characters are being placed between the pixels
of the display screen.
- Try using the underline
of tabs and spaces instead of the underline character, or try
changing the zoom (View, Zoom) by at least 20%.
- You could also create
a new, modified shortcut to WP on your desktop to more permanently
solve the problem:
- Right-click on your
Windows desktop. From the context menu that pops up, select New,
then Shortcut.
- When prompted to "Type
the location of the item:" copy and the paste the following
command, including the quote marks, into the field. (NOTE:
The example path is to the WordPerfect 10 executable program
file on most systems. If you use a different version of WP or
a different setup, you will need to modify the path. Just use
the Browse button to find the wpwinxx.exe file.)
- "C:\Program Files\Corel\WordPerfect
Office 2002\Programs\wpwin10.exe" : /dm=90
- Using "/DM=90"
should fix the underscore problem and ":" removes the
splash screen (which is optional; see WP's Help <F1>, Index
tab, "startup switches"). Some users find that adding
the /FL switch (which causes WP to write directly to the screen,
but which might cause some flicker) solves some display problems.
(Use spaces between each startup switch.)
- This tip may also solve
the problem where the decending part of some letters (g, y) appear
cut off on your screen.
- [Tested in Windows
XP. Users of earlier Windows versions may be able to simply modify
the "Target" field (not the "Start in"
field) of their existing WordPerfect desktop or Start group shortcut.]
- NOTE: If you open documents
from Windows Explorer, or My Computer, or Open With, or by any
means whereby you double-click the file's name to load the file
in WordPerfect, the shortcut discussed above will not be activated
since you will have bypassed it. You can, however, use an alternative
which involves adding the WordPerfect startup switch(es) to the
file's association in Windows via My Computer or the Windows
Control Panel (or Registry, if you are comfortable with Registry
edits). See this
thread on WordPerfect Universe (scroll down for the simple,
step-by-step instructions).
- [The following works
in Windows XP. Other operating systems should be similar.]
- For example, if you
want to remove the WordPerfect splash screen and also add the
/dm=90 startup switch, as in the example above:
- Open My Computer; click
Tools, Folder Options, File Types tab. Scroll down to WPD and
select it; then click the Advanced button, then (with
"Open" selected in the Actions pane) click the Edit
button. You can add the startup switches to the very end of the
command in the "Application used..." field. (Be sure
to leave spaces between the command and any switches, as well
as between the switches you have added.)
- Need to compare two
PDF documents? WordPerfect
X3 can now import PDF files, and you then can use WordPerfect's
File, Document, Compare feature
on the imported (converted) documents.
- If you want to change
the color of WordPerfect Comments (i.e., created with insert,
Comment), see this
post on WordPerfect Universe (WPU). If you want to automatically
create Comments and format the text in them, see Txt2Cmt
in the Library (which also contains the material in the referenced
WPU post).
- Need to sort words
or paragraphs that begin with quote marks but should be sorted
by the first text character, not the quote mark? Here's a tip
posted by Noal
Mellot at WordPerfect Universe:
- "...Unfortunately,
the alphabetical sort is not purely alphabetical, since punctuation
marks and symbols at the start of a word introduce a degree of
disorder. Let's say quote marks are keeping you from obtaining
the sorting results you expect when sorting on the first word
in a field. A macro could search for the initial quote mark,
delete it, search for the final quote mark, delete it, space,
then type a symbol (such as a spade) as a signal that the preceding
word should be surrounded by quote marks. You could then sort
normally on the first word. Once the sorting is done, another
macro could search for the symbol, delete it with its space,
back up to the end of the preceding word, type a quote mark,
then move to the start of the word and type a quote mark."
- Want to find the longest
sentence in a document? For WordPerfect 10 and later, you can
use a small macro by Kenneth Hobson. See here
and also scroll down through the thread, which should explain
why you need to turn on "Use WordPerfect 9 text selection"
before playing the macro.
- When printing in WordPerfect
12, do you get a warning message, "The document page
size is set to a custom form that may not be supported by the
printer. ..."? See Corel's support database Answer
ID #753598. As the article states, "This warning is
usually generated if your printer does not support the page definition
your [sic] trying to use. However, in some cases, the warning
may be generated regardless of what is being printed." Usually,
you can dismiss the message and print anyway, but the message
can be annoying. The article shows how to get rid of it. NOTE:
This appears to have been fixed in WordPerfect X3.
- Alternative: Try creating a custom page
size that is the same as the one provided by WordPerfect and
use it instead. Some users report that this works for them.
- If you are using a
macro to print a document and you get this message, you
could try adding a small routine to the macro that simulates
your pressing the <Enter> key to dismiss the message. See
Greg Turner's post
in this
thread at WordPerfect Universe. Below that post is another, which
contains an adaptation of his code that prints any document and
dismisses the message if it appears.
- How WordPerfect finds
a mailing address on your
letter.
- WordPerfect
locking up? Strange problems with a document? Getting an "Unknown
Format" message? These could indicate a damaged or
corrupted document. See here.
- Having difficulty selecting
blocks of text with a mouse? Does the material "flash"
by on screen too fast to stop it? This is a problem with Windows
on a fast computer. Here are some ways to select text more accurately
(thanks to Charles Rossiter at WordPerfect Universe):
- "First, the mouse-click
options: double-click selects the word; triple-click the sentence;
and quadruple-click the paragraph.
- Second, for a small
block of text, you can click the cursor where you wish the selected
text to start, do F8 to switch on "select", and then
type a character at the end of the target block and that whole
text will be selected up to the first occurrence of that character.
For this, you can display the state of the Select option, by
adding Select On/Off to the Application Bar.
- Third, click the cursor
where you wish the selected text to start. Hold down the shift
key and move the cursor with the navigation keys (up, down, left,
right arrows, page up, page down, home, end, ctrl+home, ctrl+end,
alt+pageup, alt+pagedown). There is a full list in Help, Help
Topics, Index tab, type "Navigation, Keyboard shortcuts".
[Or see this small PDF: CUA-DOS.pdf.]
- Fourth, click the cursor
where you wish the selected text to start. Use the scroll bar
only to display where you wish the selection to end. Hold down
the shift key and click the mouse at that end point." [Quote]
- Does a document look
smaller/larger than normal, or appear very tiny on screen? Maybe
you accidentally set the program's Zoom level with your mouse.
To change the View, Zoom setting hold down the <Ctrl> key
while you rotate the mouse wheel. (Many other Windows programs
work this way.)
- Need to calculate a
new date from today's date, or from some other date? Here
a several methods.
- When you open an existing document,
and you know you have not made any changes to it, does
it change its status from unmodified to modified (i.e., it has
been reformatted in some small way) -- and then ask you whether
you want to save it when you try to close it? There are several
reasons why a document might become reformatted by the program
when opening or printing the document on screen.
See the list in table form here
(also see the background information above that table).
- To create a WordPerfect
table that has a "Continued" label in the header row
on the second and subsequent pages of the table:
- Copy the original repeating
header row(s) on the first page of the table to the Windows clipboard.
- For the original header
row, de-select “Header Row repeats on each page”.
- Paste (from the clipboard)
the original header row to the top row of the second page of
the table. Type “Continued” where appropriate. This
row will now be the header for the second and subsequent pages
(“Header Row repeats” should still be selected in this
row). [Thanks to Maggie Holman at WordPerfect Universe for this
tip.]
- Do you get error messages
about using Microsoft Outlook as your "mail client"
-- and you don't have Outlook installed or don't want to use
it for your addresses? In WordPerfect 11/12/X3, try disabling
(un-checking) the box, "Use Outlook address book/contact
list," in Tools, Settings, Environment.
- Does your WordPerfect
11/12 Document Compare feature not work properly (e.g., you get
a program crash, or the entire first page of the old document
is marked as a deletion even when no change to the page was made),
with View, Page enabled and the Zoom set to Margin or
Page width? This bug has workarounds: Turn on the ruler with
View, Ruler and/or change the Zoom before doing a Document Compare.
(If your printer has a problem printing inserted, redlined text
after doing a Compare, see here.)
- Inserting
and using graphic images and photos in a WordPerfect document
-
Setting preferred defaults for
graphic images / Cross-referencing to figure boxes / Numbering
some (but not all) graphics / How to install the Clip Art catalog
on a hard drive / Creating "sticky notes" / Adding
a scanned signature to a document / [More...]
- Modifying, suppressing,
or delaying legal Pleading marks: See here.
- Missing a favorite
WordPerfect Project (File, New...)? Does a Project not work in
your new version of WordPerfect when it used to work in your
earlier one (such as the WP12 Memo Project)? You might be able
to use older Projects in later versions of WordPerfect. Here's
the trick.
- Where
is your default template [the
template on which all new, blank documents are based]"?
See here.
- To
find out which template (default or custom) the currently
open document is based on, click on Tools, Template Macro,
Edit. You can see the template's filename in that dialog, or
you can see it if you click the Location button in that dialog.
- Using the merge feature:
See Setting Up a Mail Merge
by Laura Acklen. And a few more merge tips see here
(merging multiple-page letters using letterhead paper; merging
multiple-page documents so that formatting is identical from
record to record; page numbering in multi-page form documents).
The Macros & Merges Forum at WordPerfect
Universe can answer your questions.
- Having problems converting
a Microsoft Word document (.DOC) or other program document to
a WordPerfect document (.WPD) or vice versa? The following tips
were gleaned from Corel newsgroups.
- First, if you did a
"custom" WP installation rather than a standard installation
make sure you installed the word processing conversion filters.
In WP11+'s Custom Setup, conversion filters for Word (and others)
are under WordPerfect Office 11 > Filters > Word Processors.
In WP10 they are on a separate screen when you click on Next
during the custom install. No filters, no conversions. Similarly,
if Word was set up without the WP document conversion options,
you will need to install them in Word.
- Second, if you have
a version of WP that was released before the Word program
being used, then -- since Microsoft (unlike Corel) tends to change
the document file structure with each new release -- you may
not have the proper conversion filters anyway.
- Other tips:
- If you want to convert
a WPD document to a Word document so that it can be shared with
someone who only has MSWord, it may be better to simply rename
the file with a .DOC extension and let the recipient's Word program
do the conversion when it loads the file than to try and save
the file in WP (File > Save As > File Type...) as a MSWord
file. (Try it both ways to see how well the file is converted.)
- WP12+ users: If you
prefer saving the WPD document as a MSWord file, you can add
a button to the toolbar to do it. This feature - 'Save as Microsoft
Word...' - is found under the 'File' feature category in the
Toolbar Editor. For instructions on adding a feature to the toolbar,
menu, or a keystroke combination, see here.
- An alternative is to
set up the computer that has just the Word program installed
on it so that it will recognize a WPD filename extension as being
associated with Word. Then Word will open the file when you double-click
the filename in Windows Explorer (assuming Word has the WP filters
installed). See your Windows Help file for how to do this; but
generally, you can hold the Shift key down while you right-click
the filename, then choose Open With, and then choose the MSWord
program. Be sure to set Windows to "Always use the selected
program to open this file.")
- Even though WP12 (as
of this writing) does a better job of converting files than earlier
versions, it still does not always do a perfect job. "Chris
D" posted this explanation in the Corel WP12 newsgroup:
- "... They [Word
and WordPerfect] are not just similar programs using different
codes. The file structure is very different. WP uses a straight
streaming file that starts at the beginning with the first page
and ends with the last. Word uses 'objects,' primarily paragraphs
as the foundation, then modifies them with other objects. The
sequence of objects may or may not be what you see on your screen
and printer output. Index pointers control the output from what
may be a very tangled file.
- WP's conversion program
has to makes sense of the disorder and reorganize it to be a
streaming file. Word's task at converting a WP file is much simpler
as there is little to untangle. [WP does use objects for some
tasks, such as headers, footnotes, etc., where the output is
not in the main stream of text.]
- Some users have found
that letting Word convert the WP file is the better choice [than
trying to save the WP document as a Word document in WP]. ...
- The result [in WP12]
is pretty decent portability for text-only documents with only
minimal formatting. A heavily formatted or graphic-intensive
document [might] not convert very well. ..."
- After loading and converting
a Word document in WP, you might find lots of unwanted format
codes in the WPD document. You can remove many of them with a
macro such as 'Word Cleanup' at http://www.macros.koenecke.us/.
- WordPerfect 11/12/X3
users may find that they cannot enable QuickCorrect's Format-As-You-Go
setting, "Change two spaces to one space between sentences."
Although this option is broken in WP11/12/X3 (but reported as
fixed in WPX3/sp1), a simple one-line macro can properly set
the option. For example, to set Format-As-You-Go to convert from
two spaces between sentences to one space, this one-line macro
command does the job:
- EndOfSentenceSpacing
(DoubleToSingle!)
- I have no idea why
this fixes the problem, only that it works. However, you can
choose "None" or "Change one space to two..."
from the Format-As-You-Go dialog. It is just setting this particular
alternative choice that doesn't work unless you use the above
simple macro or enable the same macro command in the QC
macro found in the Library.
- Need to change text
marked with (Format, Font) Redline and Strikeout codes to (File,
Document, Review) Insertion and Deletion codes so that others
can review and annotate the document? See this
thread at WordPerfect Universe.
- Problems with getting
automated template Projects to work? If a Project has an embedded
macro or macros, and you turned macros off when asked to do so
by a dialog that popped up after installation or reinstallation
of the program, then the Project will not work. Turning off macros
in WordPerfect is not really necessary (compared to some programs
that can carry "macro viruses"). Moreover, it unnecessarily
restricts one of WordPerfect's most useful features. For more
on this, including how to turn macros back on, see this
thread on WordPerfect Universe.
- Where did it come from?
If you can't figure out which template a WordPerfect document
is based on, you can get the template's filename two ways: (1)
Use Tools, Template Macro, Edit and you should see the name on
the pop-up dialog. [Thanks to Kenneth Hobson for this tip.] (2)
More advanced users can load the document in Corel's file repair
and information utility, WPLOOK,
and check under the Prefix menu option. For more on WPLOOK see
Laura Acklen's article here.
- Sorting a table by
dates in WordPerfect 9 can be problematic. WP10 and later versions
have fewer problems in this area, along with a new "Date
in a table row" sort option. For a solution, see Jan Berinstein's
post on WordPerfect Universe here.
(Note that she used WP9/sp3. For WP9/sp4, I found that her step
#11 should be modified to read, "Select the column in the
original table, delete the selection, then paste...."
- Printer and fax formatting
problems (i.e., the font or pagination differs slightly using
different printers or when you fax a document) - See here.
- If you select and copy
macro code into WordPerfect from an internet site (web page,
newsgroup, etc.) you might also drag along extraneous, unwanted
formatting. Here's how to do
it properly.
- WordPerfect (versions
10.0.0.663 through at least 11.0.0.305): When trying to
add "flagged" words to the writing tools in these versions,
you might notice that some words (e.g., possessives, and words
that include "/") are not being saved. This is due
to a bug introduced in WP10/sp2 (i.e., 10.0.0.663) and which
persists in the early builds of WP11 (note: it was fixed
in WP11/SP3). You will need to add such words to the main
dictionary via the WordPerfect Spell Utility (located under
Start, Programs, WordPerfect...). See the Corel support site's
article #753694 for instructions.
The dictionary file you need to modify (for WP11) is wt11en.mor
(WT=Writing Tools; EN represents the English dictionary; 11=WP11).
- Note 1: By default, these files (for
WP11) are found in the "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Corel\Shared\Writing
Tools\11" folder.
- Note
2: As Paula Ford
notes on WordPerfect Universe (here):
"...If you add words to the main word list (not the user
word list), the spell checker will then skip possessives of the
word....Add the root of the word, such as [WordPerfect],
to the list. [If the word already exists in the list, you won't
be able to add or save it again.] Check the Spell Utility's Help
file for more detailed instructions. This is probably only helpful
for words that you use repeatedly or perhaps where you are working
on a long document over a long period time. It's hardly worth
the effort for the quick letter."
- Note 3: Most "flagged" words
can be added to the user word list (wt11us.uwl) file during a spell check by clicking
the Add button. It is only certain words (e.g., possessives such
as "Bill's") that are not added this way because of
the bug. And as Jack Waananen (Corel C_Tech) points out: "You
can check the words in the UWL by doing Tools, Spell Checker,
[then answer] No to the 'Close [spell checker]' message, [Then
click] Options, User Word Lists. The words you 'Add'ed should
show in that list along with the QuickCorrect pairs. The added
words show the word on the left and <skip> on the right
-- they are listed alphabetically amid the QC pairs. If your
UWL is not properly receiving the 'Add'ed words, then delete
(or rename to some other name) the WT11US.UWL file. When you
relaunch WPWin11, a new default UWL will be generated from scratch
that should work correctly."
- Also, as Charles Rossiter
(Corel C_Tech) notes: "The QuickCorrect file is also known
as the User Word List. Where it is stored depends on your version
of Windows. [For WP11] search for file WT11US.UWL (assuming the
use of language code US). You can copy and rename [an earlier
version of the .UWL file] to overwrite the WPWin11 version."
- Need
to split table cells in a particular row so that the resulting
cells are equal in width? See here.
- "Box" your
text by selecting the text and then clicking Insert, Text Box
(or click the Text Box icon on your toolbar). Unlike using Format,
Paragraph, Border/Fill, creating a text box allows you to select
the box and drag it to a different location. To create such a
box with rounded corners, see the TextBox
macro in the Library.
- Do you back up important
data or photos to a CD? Make sure they will last more than a
year or two. See Fred Langa's article, "Time to Check Your
CDRs" at http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15800263.
Tip: Don't buy cheap CD blanks and don't use stick-on labels
(use a felt-tip pen instead). The adhesive on labels for CDs
can possibly destroy the dye layer where the information is stored.
Sunlight, heat, humidity, dirt, and fungi are enemies, too. (Thanks
to Chris D on Corel's WordPerfect 11 news group for pointing
to this article.)
- Does the Document
Review dialog keep coming up even after you are finished
reviewing the document (with File, Document, Review)? Here's
how to stop it from appearing.
- Do you use Courier
New (True Type) font? If it prints or faxes too light, you can
download a free Dark Courier font for all Windows applications
at Hewlett-Packard's site. (Http://www.hp.com;
search there for "dark courier font"; instructions
to install it are given on the search results page).
- Clipbook, introduced
in WP10, is still there; however, also see the free KeyNote
program, a tabbed notebook and personal information manager with
a tree structure and strong encryption. (I have not yet reviewd
KeyNote.)
- Automatically make
back ups of your document to
help you recover your work
- If you have more than
one version of WordPerfect installed and you open a document
by clicking its name in Windows Explorer, My Computer, or the
Windows Desktop, it will open in the most recent version of WP
that was installed.
- To change this behavior
and force Windows to use a specific WP version, open the preferred
verion of WP and click Tools, Settings, Files. Be sure that "Use
default extension on open and save" is checked. Change the
WPD extension to something else and click Apply. Then immediately
change it back to WPD and click Apply or OK. This process should
update the Windows Registry to associate the .WPD filename extension
with the currently opened version of WP.
- Note that all files
with a WPD extension will be opened in the preferred version
of WP in the future, even if they were created in another version
of WP. Normally this is not a problem since (unlike competing
products) WP files are both downwardly and upwardly compatible
without any need to convert them first -- something that has
been true since at least WPWin6. However, if the file was created
or updated using a different default printer, there may be slight
differences in formatting due to the printer driver in use at
the time, or due to slight variations in fonts on the two systems
(even those they appear to have the same font name). This can
happen if you have "Reformat douments for the WordPerfect
default printer on open" checked in Tools, Settings, Environment.
- Also [from a post by
Charles Rossiter (Corel C_Tech) on the Corel WP11 newsgroup]:
"You must expect different version of WPWin to produce different
pagination, even if the printer selected is the same, and on
the same PC. In WPWin9 et seq, you can do Tools, Settings, Convert
and check the option 'Do not use printer metrics'. Click the
[Template] button for this to apply to all new files. With this
setting, effectively WPWin9/10/11/12/X3 is using an internal
generic 1200 dpi printer driver for screen formatting, and then
uses the printer driver to produce the same pagination, as closely
as possible within the resolution of the printers. Your printed
output should appear identical."
- QuickCorrect weirdness -
When
you type (i), (c), or (r), do they change into other characters?
Do dates typed as "1/27/07" change to a numerical fraction?
Here are some remedies:
- Does "(i)"
change to "(I)" and "i." change to "I."
when you type these characters to enumerate a list item?
QuickCorrect (under the
Tools menu) has a default setting to change a solitary lower-case
"i" to upper case -- something you probably want to
retain. Trailing punctuation (as well as a hard return or tab)
is treated like a space character (all of which activate QuickCorrect),
so it "sees" the lower-case "i" as a solitary
character and converts it to upper case.
Solution:
In QuickCorrect, add (without quote marks) an "(i)"
in both the "Replace:" and "With:"
fields. Repeat for "i." and "i)". [Thanks
to Roy Lewis for this tip.] |
- WordPerfect 10/11/12/X3 - Unlike in WP9 and earlier versions,
typing a "(c)" or "(r)" will cause a conversion
to © and ®. This seems to be a bug. Solution: Edit QuickCorrect
(Tools, QuickCorrect) to include these entries:
(c == replace with ==>
©
(c) == replace with ==> (c)
(r
== replace with ==> ®
(r) == replace with
==> (r)
...and
to preserve capital letters:
((c)) == replace
with ==> (C)
((r)) == replace with ==> (R)
|
Now, when you need
the Copyright or Registered symbol, just type (without quotes)
a "(c" or a "(r". When typing enumerated
lists using letters, you can use "(c)" or "(r)"
without WP converting them to symbols.
An alternative
to this tip suggested by Noal Mellot in a WordPerfect Universe
forum is to add a number after the appropriate letter (e.g.,
c9 would be corrected to ©). Using a letter in front (rather
than a parentheses) avoids interference between upper/lower case,
so you don't have to add separate entries for upper and lower
case.
- WordPerfect 10/11 - Typing a date such as 1/27/07
with change the "1/2" part of the entry into a fraction.
|
Solutions: Type 01/27/07 instead. Or,
just delete all the fraction symbols from QuickCorrect to prevent
dates from being changed, and use the Fraction
macro, which produces a similar format for any fraction,
not just the limited set that is in QuickCorrect. [This problem
seems to have been fixed in WP12.] |
- Spell Checker interaction: Note that the WordPerfect spell
checker can convert the QuickCorrect abbreviations into their
replacements -- which is a good reason to implement the tips
in the above paragraphs.
- Here's another tip,
from "Jeremy" at WordPerfect Universe: "One way
to keep an eye on what the spellchecker does is to open the spellchecker,
click on 'options', and check 'prompt before auto replacement'."
- In the same thread,
"Robin" writes: "There is another method of stopping
only certain words [such as QuickCorrect entries] from being
automatically changed while running a spell check, rather than
all of them. Go into Tools, Spell Checker, Options, User Word
Lists. Click on the entry in question and click Properties, where
you’ll see you have the option to either skip the entry,
auto-replace the entry, or exception (which will stop on the
entry and let you decide). If you change any of the entries to
skip or exception, the entries are also removed from the Quick
Correct list (but will remain in view in the Spell Checker
list). Again, this only useful or important when you have QuickCorrect
turned off."
- You can use Find and
Replace to find codes (e.g., [Left Tab] codes) as well as text.
Just open Reveal Codes and select a sample of the code (<Shift+Arrow>
works well to select things in Reveal Codes), copy it to the
Windows clipboard with <Ctrl+C> and then paste it into
the Find (or Replace) field with <Ctrl+V>. Alternatively,
use the menu item Match, Codes in the Find and Replace dialog.
(Careful: "...Left Tab" is not the same thing as "Left
Tab.")
- Collapse and expand
text under your document headings with the Outline feature. If
you have used WordPerfect's default heading styles (e.g., Heading
1, Heading 2, etc.) in your document, open Reveal Codes with
View, Reveal Codes and put your cursor at the top of the document
above all other codes. Click on Insert, Outline/Bullets..., <text
tab>, Headings, OK. This will display an Outline property
bar whenever your cursor is inside a heading, which you can use
to promote/demote headings, show/hide levels, show/hide body
text, etc. (Tested in WP8/9/10.)
- WordPerfect 10 templates
(English versions) can be downloaded from Corel's FTP
site. For WP11 templates, see the top "Warning"
section on the Library page about
the possible need to recompile templates, and links to sites
where you can download all WP11's shipping templates (recompiled
for you).
- Make a 1/4-page folded
greeting card in WordPerfect
using subdivided pages
- Old address labels:
If you have previously addressed labels and you want to sort
them, extract their text, or merge them, try sorting them directly
or use a procedure to convert labels
to a table or to a merge data file. And you can do the reverse:
Here's how to convert
a table to a text file or convert a merge data file to a table.
- Need to print booklets
more easily? Want to save on paper and toner/ink? Try FinePrint
from FinePrint Software,
or ClickBook from BlueSquirrel Software.
Both create multi-up printouts or booklets from any Windows program.
They are also good for printing draft work, two pages to a sheet
of paper. Demo/trial versions available.
- Need to print a list
of filenames (not the files, just their names) in a directory
or folder? See
this post on WPUniverse.
- A faster way to move
through a document: Quickly move
your cursor sentence-to-sentence or cell-to-cell in tables,
highlighting (i.e., selecting) each sentence or cell as you go
to make it easy to view, copy, or delete any of them.
- Do you share your WordPerfect
documents? If so, you probably should change your Undo/Redo
History options, or use a macro to remove confidential revisions
or deletions before distribution. You may also want to remove
all "metadata" form your document before sharing it.
- Can't see borders around
table cells on your screen, even though they print? Can't see
white text on a black or colored background in a table? Perhaps
you have turned table gridlines "on." Click
here for information about table gridlines, table guidelines,
and cell borders.
- Create a callout
(a label-and-line that points to something else) in WordPerfect
8
- Drawing down, up, or
angled arrows in WordPerfect 8.
- WordPerfect's
Postal Bar Codes
- Do they help speed delivery of individual letters?
- A
simple trick to help debug your macros.
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