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Pages linked to the Main Tips Page (alphabetical
by page name)
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Automating documents and
tasks
See also these Categories below -
Automating templates
Formatting and structuring text
Menus, toolbars, property bars,
and keyboards
Miscellaneous tips and tricks
Updating, upgrading, or reinstalling
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- [Sticky>>] See the Library's
Section 1 for macros that help automate documents
and tasks.
- Assoc.html - Automatically associate a personalized keyboard
or menu with a template
- AutoDate.html - Automatically insert the current date as unchanging
text in a letterhead or other template
- AutoNumb.html - Starting, using, and stopping the automatic
numbering (and bullet) feature -and- Tips and tricks for using
automatic paragraph numbering, outlines, and numbered lists -
How to turn these on and off, temporarily or permanently - 15
tips - See also Outlines.html and
TOC.html ("How to mark a custom style
for inclusion in a Table of Contents or List").
- AutoNumbHeads.html - Automatically numbered document headings - Create
automatically numbered single-level headings - Combine Outline
numbering with a default or custom heading style to create automatically
numbered multi-level legal-style headings (or any style of multi-level
auto-numbered headings)
- AutoSpel.html - Automatically run the spell checker before
printing a document
- Boilerplate.html - How to insert 'boilerplate' and other repeating
items: QuickWords, QuickCorrect, QuickMacros, Shortcut keys,
Styles, Macros, Floating cells, Insert>File, Custom templates,
Text variables, the Corel ClipBook, and other utility programs
- ChgPrint.html - How to quickly change printers (WP8+) back
to the default after printing to a different printer or faxing
the document - See also 2Trays.html
- CustomRA.html - Customize the return address on envelopes
with graphics and font attributes
- Custom templates
- see here (on the Templates.html
page)
- CustPrns.html - How to create new, customized copies of your favorite
printer choices - Controlling the tray source, ink color, and
other features of your printer
- Default template
- see here (on the Templates.html
page)
- DragIcon.html - Drag-and-drop icons from the Windows desktop
to WordPerfect's toolbar or a property bar
- Env2Prn2.html - A simple macro to print envelopes to another
printer, then reset WordPerfect 10 (and later versions) to your
default printer
- FillForm.html - Filling in forms using WordPerfect - Pre-printed
forms - Forms created as a WordPerfect document - Forms created
with Adobe Acrobat (i.e., "PDF" documents)
- FRtips.html - Enhancing the Find and Replace feature
- LoadCustomDocs.html - Loading new documents based on custom templates
(see also Templates.html for
information about the default template as well as creating new
custom templates)
- LoadLetr.html - Load a letterhead (or any other document based
on a template) with a mouseclick or keystroke
- Macros
& Templates - Links to several
"How To" sites - See also: EasyPlay.html (Customizing
WordPerfect - Three easy ways to play macros, load programs,
type (insert) keystrokes, or use built-in WordPerfect features)
- Master documents / Subdocuments tips: See
here.
- Merge.html - Merge tips and some links to other resources -
Sorting address labels by last name or ZIP code - Convert existing
labels to a table or merge data file (.DAT) - Convert a table
to a merge data file or ordinary text - How to edit just one
field in several records of a merge data file - Workaround for
disappearing bookmarks in merges - Automatically number table rows (or items) when you merge into a table
- MergeMP.html - Merging multiple-page letters using letterhead
paper for page 1 and plain paper for subsequent pages - Merging
multiple-page documents so that formatting is identical from
record to record - Page numbering in multi-page form documents
- QMacro.html - Automate your current session tasks with a
QuickMacro
- QuickCorrect - (See also Boilerplate.html
above)
- QWords.html - Need to quickly insert the same items multiple
times? Use a QuickWord
- SetDefaults.html - How to set default formatting for new documents:
A step-by-step guide
- Startup.html - How to make WordPerfect play a macro or set some
display settings each time it loads
- TablTips - WordPerfect tables offer more than the ability
to organize information in columns and rows: They can do calculations,
sort, etc. Here are some "How To" tips and links to
other information
- Templates.html - The default template (how to find
it, modify it (see also this guide),
and fix it) and custom templates
- Triggers.html - (Intermediate and Advanced users) "Trigger"
a macro from inside a template to play automatically at specific
times (e.g., when a new document is opened or when a document
is printed)
- UseOldProjects.html - Using older WordPerfect Projects in new
versions of WordPerfect
... more tips in Section
1 on the Main Tips Page
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Automating templates
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- Automating.pdf
- (PDF file) - Automating WordPerfect Templates is an
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 it (see
the Table of Contents at Toc1.html)
... more tips in Section
2 on the Main Tips Page
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Formatting and structuring
text
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- [Sticky>>] See the Library's
Section 2 for macros that help format and structure
text.
- 2footers.html - Using two footers simultaneously (one for
page number, the other for separator line and filename, etc.)
so that items do not overlap
- AlignEN.html - Align endnotes on the period (a/k/a/ "full
stop") following the endnote number
- Arrows.html - Drawing down, up, or angled arrows (WordPerfect
8+)
- AutoDate.html - Automatically insert the current date as unchanging
text in a letterhead or other template
- AutoNumb.html - Starting, using, and stopping the automatic
numbering (and bullet) feature -and- Tips and tricks for using
automatic paragraph numbering, outlines, and numbered lists -
How to turn these on and off, temporarily or permanently - 15
tips - See also Outlines.html and
TOC.html ("How to mark a custom style
for inclusion in a Table of Contents or List").
- AutoNumbHeads.html - Automatically numbered document headings - Create
automatically numbered single-level headings - Combine Outline
numbering with a default or custom heading style to create automatically
numbered multi-level legal-style headings (or any style of multi-level
auto-numbered headings)
- BizCards.pdf - (PDF file) - How to create business cards manually - without
using a WordPerfect Template Project
- Boilerplate.html - How to insert 'boilerplate' and other repeating
items: QuickWords, QuickCorrect, QuickMacros, Shortcut keys,
Styles, Macros, Floating cells, Insert>File, Custom templates,
Text variables, the Corel ClipBook, and other utility programs
- BordFill.html - Adding emphasis to text: How to create custom paragraph/page
border or fill styles
- Bullets.html - Need a new bullet outline 'style'? Create
custom bullets for your outlines
- Callout.html Create a callout (a label-and-line that points
to something else)
- Checkboxes.html - Creating checkboxes (small boxes with an "x"
or check mark inside them) and check marks
- CNumLabl.html - Consecutively numbered labels, tickets, cards,
etc
- CommentCode.html - How to put instructions or comments inside a macro
- ContPgX.html - How to create "Continued on Page x"
footers where "x" is the number of the following
page
- Counters.html - Using WordPerfect counters to count or number anything
in a document
- Coverup.html - Using boxes to cover up dividing lines between
columns in newsletters or similar document styles in WordPerfect
8/9. This tip can be used to cover up text, parts of a table,
clip art, etc.
- CreatingIndexes.pdf - (PDF file) - How to create an index in WordPerfect (using
both manual marking methods and a concordance file) - See also IndexDocs.html - Indexing documents with WordPerfect
- CustomCD.html - 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 - Also, if you use
Avery CD-ROM labels on the CDs, here's a way to format them
- CustomRA.html - Customize the return address on envelopes
with graphics and font attributes
- CustomStyles.html - Creating custom styles; Saving custom styles to
your default (or other) template; Retrieving custom (user) styles
from another document or template; How to remove the new style
from the default template
- Custom templates
- see here (on the Templates.html
page)
- Dashes and slashes: Dashes (downloadable document) - NoWraps (tips) and Softwrap (downloadable macro) - Hyphens (descriptions of 4 types)
- Default template
- see here (on the Templates.html
page)
- DotLeads.html - Indent paragraphs with dot leaders
- DoubleSpacing.html - How to double space text or add other custom line
or paragraph spacing
- EdgeText.html - Creating text outside a document's page margins,
along the edge of the page(s)
- ENtips.html - Endnote tips - How to 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 combine several files that contain endnotes
- EvenOdd.html - Create alternating even page and odd page identification
in headers or footers - Create a third type of "header"
or "footer" for identifying information
- FillAvery.html - Here's how quickly and easily to fill up Avery®
sheets to make duplicate copies of return address labels, business
cards, shipping labels, inventory stickers, log sheets
- FillForm.html - Filling in forms using WordPerfect - Pre-printed
forms - Forms created as a WordPerfect document - Forms created
with Adobe Acrobat (i.e., "PDF" documents)
- FNEN.html - Footnotes and Endnotes: Setting or changing
margins, numbers, font sizes, tabs and other formatting in WordPerfect
notes - Temporary changes to the current document - Permanent
changes to future documents - Setting new note numbers - Changing
the font of the "Continued" message - Hiding note numbers
- Using characters in place of one or more footnote numbers -
"Repeat" a footnote - How to simulate "inline"
footnotes - ...more...
- GraphicsTips.html - Miscellaneous tips for inserting and using graphic
images and photos in a WordPerfect document
- Greeting.html - How to make a 1/4-page folded greeting card
in WordPerfect using subdivided pages
- GrphBord.html - Create a page border with repeating graphic
images (clip art, photos, etc.) around the four edges of the
page
- HeadFootWM.html - Headers,
Footers, and Watermarks
- Some useful WordPerfect features you
can add to multi-page documents ... and how to start, stop, suppress,
change, replace, delay, overlay, or remove them (with links to
related topics, such as page numbering and page identification)
- HeadSpac.html - Reduce spacing between a paragraph heading
style and the following body text
- Hyphens.html - Hyphens, hard hyphens, soft hyphens, hyphenated
soft returns, and hard spaces ... What they are and how they
work
- LegalHds.html - (See AutoNumbHeads.html)
- Line spacing, line height, and paragraph spacing - See DoubleSpacing.html
- Lists - see TOC.html - How to create
a Table of Contents (or a WordPerfect List) in three easy steps
- Mark a custom style for automatic inclusion in a Table of Contents
or a List
- LoadCustomDocs.html - Loading new documents based on custom templates
(see also Templates.html for
information about the default template as well as creating new
custom templates)
- LoadLetr.html - Load a letterhead (or any other document based
on a template) with a mouseclick or keystroke
- MailingAddress.html - How WordPerfect finds a mailing address on your
letter
- Master / Subdocument tips: See here.
- MixingLP.html - 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
- MixingTJ.html - Mixing text justification on the same line
(left / center / right)
- NoWraps.html - Preventing long web addresses (URLs) and e-mail
addresses from wrapping to the next line as a single block of
text
- OtherCodes.html - Using "Other Codes" in WordPerfect (Format
> Line > Other Codes)
- Outlines.html - Using, creating, modifying, and saving outlines
- Alternatives, tips, and examples
- PageNumb.html - Page numbering in WordPerfect (plus related links)
- PageNumbBooks.html - Page numbering in (some) books - 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
- PageNumbOutMarg.html - Simulating page numbering outside the document's
normal top and bottom page margins
- PageNumbRomanArabic.html - Page numbering using both Roman and Arabic numerals
- Pleading.html - Modifying the legal Pleading feature
- PSpecial.html - Edit, Paste Special, Unformatted Text helps
solve formatting problems when copying blocks of text or macro
code from the internet
- PubPDF.html - Trying to publish in PDF (Adobe's Portable
Document Format) with WordPerfect 9? Here are some tips
- QAstyle.html - How to create a Question-and-Answer style
- QMacro.html - Automate your current session tasks with a
QuickMacro
- QuickCorrect - (See also Boilerplate.html
above)
- QWords.html - Need to quickly insert the same items multiple
times? Use a QuickWord
- Reformatted.html - Why some documents seem to "spontaneously"
or automatically change or reformat themselves when they are
opened, printed, faxed, or shared between users
- RemoveBU.html - Do you want to remove blue underlines in e-mail
addresses and web site URLs from your printouts? Get rid of the
hypertext links ("hyperlinks") - Also: How to change
hyperlink styles from the default blue
text with underlines
- ResetMargins.html - 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
- RevealCodes.html - Some resources and tips on using Reveal Codes
- Rotate.html - Rotating text to intermediate angles (e.g.,
33 degrees)
- SetDefaults.html - How to set default formatting for new documents:
A step-by-step guide
- SplitCells.html - How to split table cells in a particular row so
that the resulting cells are equal in width
- StampDoc.html - Creating "DRAFT," "COPY,"
and other identification stamps on the pages of a document
- Styles.html - (Some basic information, an example, and several
links to related pages)
- Table of Contents - TOC.html - How to create
a Table of Contents (or a WordPerfect List) in three easy steps
- Mark a custom style for automatic inclusion in a Table of Contents
or a List
- TablTips - WordPerfect tables offer more than the ability
to organize information in columns and rows: They can do calculations,
sort, etc. Here are some "How To" tips and links to
other information
- Templates.html - The default template (how to find
it, modify it (see also this guide),
and fix it) and custom templates
- Txt2Tabl.html - Converting text to a table and vice versa
- UseOldProjects.html - Using older WordPerfect Projects in new
versions of WordPerfect
- VariableCellWidths.html - How to create some table cells that have variable widths without changing cells directly above and below that row
- VertCard.html - Creating vertically formatted business cards
or labels in WordPerfect 8 and later versions
... more tips in Section
3 on the Main Tips Page
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Menus, toolbars, property
bars, and keyboards
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- 2keys.html -
(Intermediate and Advanced users) "Two-key" macros can help organize related macros or tasks under a common
keystroke combination. Press one key to play the macro, then
another to perform some action
- 2taps.html - (Intermediate and Advanced users) "Two-tap" macros - how to press a keyboard key twice in succession to perform a task, play another macro, etc. [See also DblDuty.html
- Make a key do "double duty" by assigning a macro to it, and make the
macro play only if the key is struck multiple times (e.g., 3x, 4x, etc.).]
- AltKeys.html - How to display hidden underlines for <Alt>-key
shortcuts
- Assign.html - Assigning a macro, feature, program, or string
of keystrokes to a key or key combination (i.e., a "shortcut"
or "hot key") - See also CreateTB.html
and WPMenus.pdf
- Assoc.html - Automatically associate a personalized keyboard
or menu with a template
- CapsFix.html - Make the <Shift> key turn Caps Lock
off automatically
- CreateToolbar.html - How to create a new, custom toolbar
- CreateTB.html - How to create a toolbar button to play
a macro, load a program or file, or use a built-in WordPerfect
feature - See also Assigning a macro,
feature, program, or string of keystrokes to a key or key combination
(i.e., a "shortcut" or "hot key")
- CUA-DOS.pdf - (PDF file) - Using CUA (WordPerfect for Windows) and DOS
keystrokes for navigating WordPerfect
- CustomPropertyBars - Adding buttons to the context-sensitive Property
Bars
- DblDuty.html - (Intermediate and Advanced users) Make
a key do "double duty" by assigning a macro to it,
and make the macro play only if the key is struck multiple times
(e.g., 3x, 4x, etc.)
- EasyPlay.html - Customizing WordPerfect - Three easy
ways to play macros, load programs, type (insert) keystrokes,
or use built-in WordPerfect features by creating your own toolbar
buttons, shortcut keys, and menus. (Links to several other pages
on this site.)
- EditIcon.html - How to change those default "audiocassette"
icons on toolbar buttons after assigning macros to them
- Macros
& Templates - Links to several
"How To" sites - See also: EasyPlay.html (Customizing
WordPerfect - Three easy ways to play macros, load programs,
type (insert) keystrokes, or use built-in WordPerfect features)
- NewMenu.html - How to add, edit, rearrange, or remove menu items
- Property bars - See CustomPropertyBars
about adding buttons to the context-sensitive property bars (a
type of toolbar that appears depending on the context)
- RectangularText.html - How to select a rectangular block of text
so you can delete it, copy it, or cut it
- ToolbarsAndPropertyBars.html - The difference between toolbars and property bars
- VerticalToolbar.pdf - (PDF file) - How to create a vertical toolbar with text
buttons to access your favorite folders, templates and files
- WPMenus.pdf - (PDF file) - Adding
menu selections to the WordPerfect menu bar
... more tips in Section
4 on the Main Tips Page
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Miscellaneous tips and tricks
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- [Sticky>>] See the Library's
Section 3 for some miscellaneous macros.
- 2Trays.html - How WordPerfect 'talks' to your printer's
trays and manual feed slot (i.e., the functions of WordPerfect's
Page Setup dialog) - Two-tray printing: Print the first page
from one printer tray and the second and subsequent pages from
another tray - Print all pages of the current document from the
manual feed slot
- Arrows.html - Drawing down, up, or angled arrows (WordPerfect
8+)
- AutoBAK.html - Automatically make back ups of documents to
help you recover your work - Explains "Timed document backup
every X minutes" and "Save original document as a backup
at each save" (or just "Original document backup"
in earlier versions)
- BadFiles.html - Problems with WordPerfect program files
- Tips and procedures you can follow to try and solve problems
- See also RepairDocs.html for
problems with document and template files
- CalcNewDate.html - Need to calculate a new date from today's date,
or from some other date? Here a several methods.
- CapsFix.html - Make the <Shift> key turn Caps Lock
off automatically
- ChgPrint.html - How to quickly change printers (WP8+) back
to the default after printing to a different printer or faxing
the document - See also 2Trays.html
- CommentCode.html - How to put instructions or comments inside a macro
- CopyCode.html - How to copy plain-text macro code from an
internet site (e.g., web site, newsgroup, etc.) into WordPerfect
to create a functioning macro
- DblDuty.html - (Intermediate and Advanced users) Make
a key do "double duty" by assigning a macro to it,
and make the macro play only if the key is struck multiple times
(e.g., 2x, 4x, etc.)
- Debug.html - (Intermediate and Advanced users) Simple
tricks to help debug your macros
- DocCompare.html - Using Document Compare
- DocReview.html - Does the Document Review dialog box keep coming
up even after you are finished reviewing the document (with File,
Document, Review)? Here's how to stop it
- DragIcon.html - Drag-and-drop icons from the Windows desktop
to WordPerfect's toolbar or a property bar
- EasyPlay.html - Customizing WordPerfect - Three easy ways
to play macros, load programs, type (insert) keystrokes, or use
built-in WordPerfect features by creating your own toolbar buttons,
shortcut keys, and menus. (Links to several other pages on this
site.)
- Env2Prn2.html - A simple macro to print envelopes to another
printer, then reset WordPerfect 10 (and later versions) to your
default printer
- FR.html - How to efficiently use "Find:" in the
Find and Replace (F&R) dialog
- FRtips.html - Enhancing the Find and Replace feature
- GraphicsTips.html - Miscellaneous tips for inserting and using graphic
images and photos in a WordPerfect document
- Gridline.html - 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." Here is some information about table
gridlines, table guidelines, and cell borders
- IndexDocs.html
- Indexing documents with WordPerfect - The manual and concordance file
methods - Create a Glossary of Terms with the Index feature
- Macros
& Templates - Links to several
"How To" sites - See also: EasyPlay.html (Customizing
WordPerfect - Three easy ways to play macros, load programs,
type (insert) keystrokes, or use built-in WordPerfect features)
- MailingAddress.html - How WordPerfect finds a mailing address on your
letter
- Merge.html - Merge tips and some links to other resources -
Sorting address labels by last name or ZIP code - Convert existing
labels to a table or merge data file (.DAT) - Convert a table
to a merge data file or ordinary text - How to edit just one
field in several records of a merge data file - Workaround for
disappearing bookmarks in merges
- MergeMP.html - Merging multiple-page letters using letterhead
paper for page 1 and plain paper for subsequent pages - Merging
multiple-page documents so that formatting is identical from
record to record - Page numbering in multi-page form documents
- MSWordToWP.html - Migrating from Microsoft Word to WordPerfect
- New-Diff.html - What's new and different in recent WordPerfect
versions? (WP8+)
- PrnProbs.html - Printer and fax formatting problems
- RectangularText.html - How to select a rectangular block of text
so you can delete it, copy it, or cut it.
- RepairDocs.html - Repairing WordPerfect documents and templates
- See also BadFiles.html for problems
with program files
- SetDefaults.html - How to set default formatting for new documents:
A step-by-step guide
- Typeover.html - Tired of hitting the <Insert> key by
mistake and toggling Typeover mode "on"? Here's how
to reassign the Typeover function on your WordPerfect keyboard
to another keystroke combination so that the <Insert> key
remains in Insert mode
- UndoRedo.html - Do you share your WordPerfect documents? If
so, you probably should change your Undo/Redo History options,
and/or use a macro to remove confidential revisions or deletions
before distribution
- WP9TSS.html - A new feature introduced in WordPerfect 10 (and
present in later versions) affects the way text is selected and
the way the cursor moves
- WPIcons.html - Some 16x16 icon images for custom toolbars
- ZipFiles.html - What is a 'Zip' file?
... more tips in Section
5 on the Main Tips Page
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Other "tips" sites
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...see Section 6 on
the Main Tips Page
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Updating, upgrading, or reinstalling
WordPerfect
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- OEM.html - Should
you buy an "OEM" (Original Equipment Manaufacturer)
version of WordPerfect from an Internet source?
... see more tips in Section
7 on the Main Tips Page (highly recommended before
updating, upgrading, or reinstalling WordPerfect!)
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