For WordPerfect 10 and earlier
When you have the Legal toolbar visible (View,
Toolbars, Legal) the first icon creates the vertical lines and
line numbers along the edge of the Pleading page. Clicking the
icon simply plays the shipping macro, pleading.wcm, which
displays a menu of choices and then creates the lines and numbers.
For WordPerfect 11 and later
When you have the Legal toolbar visible (View,
Toolbars, Legal) the second icon brings up the Pleading Expert,
which is a built-in, self-contained program module that helps
design a legal pleading.
For all versions
What you may not know is that the lines and
numbers are first created in a watermark (Watermark B) which
then is inserted into the document's initial style code by the
pleading.wcm macro or Perfect Expert.
That's why it is hard to find -- deliberately,
so, since most users have little need to modify it, and most
would not want the [Watermark B] code deleted accidentally. So
it is hidden inside the [Open Style: DocumentStyle] code in Reveal Codes. If you create a pleading document
and double-click this code, you will see a [Watermark B] code in the Styles
Editor's Contents field.
Generally, you probably will not want to modify
the pleading macro's Watermark B, but if you really want to do
it, you can
either
- double-click the [Watermark B] code while
inside the Styles Editor and make changes there. This can be
difficult since it is hard to see all the commands and hard to
see the effects of changes. The alternative is easier:
or
- double-click the [Open Style: DocumentStyle]
code (that is, the document's initial style code) at the top
of the current Pleading document. (Make sure you are at the top
of the document, and not inside a header.)
Then -
- In the Styles Editor that pops up, place
the cursor to the immediate left of the [Watermark B] code, hold
down the Shift key, and press the right arrow key once. This
selects just the watermark code containing the Pleading formatting.
Then press Ctrl+X to cut the code from the Styles Editor
to the Windows clipboard.
- Exit from the Styles Editor (with OK), and
paste the [Watermark B] code into the main document (or a new
blank document) with Ctrl+V.
- Edit the watermark by double-clicking its
code. Make your desired changes, then exit from the Pleading
watermark with File, Close (or with the Close button on the watermark's
property bar).
- Back in the main document, use Ctrl+X to
cut the revised [Watermark B] code to the Windows clipboard.
- At this point you should be in the document
where you originally cut this watermark code from the [Open Style]
code. Now, edit the [Open Style] code again by double-clicking
it and paste the revised [Watermark B] code into its original
location in the Contents field.
- Close the Styles Editor. The revised watermark
should show in the document.
Note that you can also insert other items
into the document's initial style code (or copy codes into the
initial style from the main document). See the Tips below.
Tips
You can suppress the Pleading marks on a page in the main
document. Just place your cursor at the top of the page where
you want it suppressed and click Format, Page, Suppress, Watermark
B.
You can delay the appearance of the Pleading -- that it,
make it skip "x" pages from the start of the document.
Let's assume you want to delay the appearance of the Pleading
marks until page 3 (if there is a page 3). NOTE: Be sure to carefully
follow these instructions, since the procedure -- though simple
-- is a bit tricky.
Step 1. Create
a Pleading in the current document, which, as we now know, creates
a Pleading watermark [Watermark B] inside the document's initial
style.
Step 2. Double-click
the [Open Style: DocumentStyle] code (the document's initial
style code) at the top of the current Pleading document. In the
Styles Editor that pops up, place the cursor to the left of the
[Watermark B] code, hold down the Shift key, and press the right
arrow key once. This selects just the watermark code. Then press
Ctrl+X to cut the code from the Styles Editor to the Windows
clipboard.
NOTE: You can take the opportunity at this point to modify
the Pleading watermark before using it in a Delay code.
- Exit from the Styles Editor;
- paste the watermark code into a new blank
document;
- edit the [Watermark B] code (just double-click
it in Reveal Codes);
- make changes to the Pleading watermark;
- exit from the watermark window;
- then select just the revised [Watermark B]
code and paste it into the Styles Editor in step #3 below.
Step 3. Still
in the Styles Editor dialog, use its own menu to create a
Delay code: Click Format, Page, Delay Codes., and set the number
of pages to 2, then click OK. This will force WordPerfect to
skip the first two pages before displaying the Pleading marks.
If the document has fewer pages, the Pleading marks will not
display.
NOTE: The Styles Editor dialog immediately changes to the
Define Delayed Codes dialog. Also notice that a floating toolbar
appears at the bottom of your screen with 5 buttons on it. You
will use it to exit the Define Delayed Codes dialog.
Step 4. Paste
the [Watermark B] code in the Styles Editor's Contents
field with Ctrl+V.
Step 5. Close
the Define Delayed Codes dialog with the Close button
on the floating toolbar on the bottom of your screen. You
cannot close this dialog with the dialog's OK button. If you
try you probably will "hang" the program.
Step 6. Now,
press the OK button on the dialog to return to your document.
The Pleading numbering will show up on page 3, if there is a
page 3. It will not show up on pages 1 and 2.
NOTE: You can use more than one Delay code in the document's
initial style. For example, you can cut a [Delay] code
that resets page margins from
the main document and paste it into the [Open Style: DocumentStyle]
code's Styles Editor, alongside the other [Delay] code(s). Or
you could delay the appearance of a header or footer.
All of the above could be used in a custom template so
that it can be loaded when needed. To create automated templates
see here. |
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