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Subject: WP 5.1 text => Word 5.0 Format ????
From: mech413@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 11:43:50 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Hi all,

I have a couple of WP associated problems that I would apprecicate help in 
solving. Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I have been trying to convert Wordperfect 5.1 formatted documents to Word 5
by Mircosoft. I have had limited success using the Text Out command in WP51.
The Text out command seems to work fine when I use "First Choice" to view 
the document, ie the tabs and soft returns are fine. I then use First
Choice to convert the WP file to a Word file. When I do this and fire up
Word 5 and import the document Word 5 has forced lines with too much text 
on them onto a new line with only the 2-3 words of extra text on them. This
means that I have to go through the document (In Word 5) and manually fix 
the errors. A real pain.

The reason I'm going through this procedure is so I can use the Times
Roman fonts that I have for Word 5. I have Times Roman for Word Perfect
but unfortunetly they are only for the HP Laserjet and not the Oki OL 400
Laser printer that I have access too. If any one knows if the HP soft fonts
can be coaxed to be used on other printers Please let me know. Thanks.

Tim Pierre    Mech413@csc.canterbury.ac.nz


  


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From:         Tony Roder <TONY@SLACVM.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Q: debugger for macro's?


There are two macro handling programs on the shareware market, which can
be obtained from the Simtel archives through ftp (for those to whom this
means anything), or from a shareware dealer such as PSL (800-242-4775),
or directly from the programmers.

They are:  Macroaid (MACRAI11.ZIP on Simtel) produced by
           David Seidman
           2737 Devonshire Pl.  NW
           Washington DC  20008
           (he also puts out a WPTOOLS series of programs and useful macros
            which I expect he'll be glad to tell you about if you write)
and
           Macroade (MCROADE4.ZIP on Simtel) produced by
           Performance Sciences International
           Suite 1250
           3001 Latte Dr.
           Summerfield NC  27358
           (919) 643-3492

If nothing else, these are interesting applications of WP's macro capabilities.
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From: rogers@eagle (Bill Rogers)
Subject: Macro for Business Cards?
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Organization: Sangamon State University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:32:03 GMT

The subject sayes it all. Does anyone have a macro or whatever to generate
stardard sized business cards? Or does anyone have any ideas on how to go
about it?

Thanks,
Bill

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From: hiscrp@nuscc.nus.sg (C R Pennell)
Subject: Re:      Words missing from WP dictionary
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 08:06:38 GMT

        Marc Becker <MABECKER@UKANVM.BITNET> writes:
: I'm not sure what all of this recent discussion on words missing from the
: WP spellchecker is all about.  Mine has 'lost,' 'aren't,' etc., and it is
: even the 1/19/90 release date!  The only two obvious words that I have
: found missing are fundraising and rainforest.  I would, though, really
: like it too if I could premanently turn off the number checking function.


	This may be a difference between UK and US English versions. Us
who was brought up proper to speak the QUEEN'S ENGLISH, we never, never
never do anything as vulgar as write an abbreviated form in a piece of
prose. But you Americans, well I suppose we have yo forgive these
solecisms . . . 


Richard Pennell, history NUS
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From:         JGB0000 <JGB@UNB.CA>
Subject:      Bulletin macro

Hello,

Sometime ago, maybe a year, WP had a macro called BOOKLET on their
bullein board.  Of course they do not now and will not supply it.
Does any body out there have a copy they would be willing to share?
It would be mush appreciated.

Replys may be made to JGB@unb.ca

Thanks in advance

Janice

JGB@UNB.ca
Janice G. El-Bayoumi
University of New Brunswick
Computing Service
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From: hiscrp@nuscc.nus.sg (C R Pennell)
Subject: Re: foreign dictonaries
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 08:02:55 GMT

deatz@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Gregory H Deatz) writes:
: 
: Are WordPerfect dictionaries "shareware"? 


  NO! (welcome to the real world)

In other words, if I want to
: get my hands on the German lexicon, where do I go 



Your friendly local Word Perfect Corp authorised dealer

and do I have to
: pay?


YES - lots

Richard Pennell History NUS
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From: cvessey@upei.ca (Chris R. Vessey)
Subject: Equations:  Panasonic KX-P1123 to HP LaserJet III glitch (?)
Summary: Strange happenings with reformatted equations.
Keywords: glitch translate reformat default printer
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:51:37 GMT

Here's an interesting little problem that occurred just the other day on our 
site.  A user in our Department of Economics (we're a University) had 
created a file with several equations; this file was created with the 
Panasonic KX-P1123 driver as the default.  Later, he tried to select the 
departmental HP LaserJet III for printing.  On both machines he used a 
default font of Courier 10cpi.  Furthermore, he had set Graphics and Text to 
High for printing.

Equations are (correct me if I'm wrong) considered a form of graphics by 
default; they print using graphics normally (but can be set to use native 
printer characters instead, if desired).  His was set to print entirely as 
graphics.

Problem is, some characters just plain disappeared.  For example, let us 
suppose that a formula like the following was entered:
                            2
			e=mc

This might have come out like:


                         = c

with missing characters.  View it on the screen (in preview mode, natch) and 
it's fine.  Print it and they're missing.

Anybody know of a glitch going from the Panasonic driver to the LaserJet 
driver?  If so, do you have a fix?

Thanks!

							Chris


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         Avenue, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island C1A 4P3 CANADA
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From:         UAHWBW01@UAHVAX1.BITNET
Subject: Re: Q: debugger for macro's?

WordPerfect Macros and Templates (5.1 version) by Gordon McComb, Bantam Books,
ISBN 0-553-34875-2 has a section on debugging macros.  The book comes with
disks and on one of the disks is a program, macprof.exe which has application
in debugging macros.
Hope this is of some help.
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From:         John Bigelow <ECON1286@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: "Invisible" lettering with DR1.1
              30 Sep 1992 13:41:44 EDT from <MCHOLL@TSRV1.TS.WM.EDU>

On Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:41:44 EDT Michael Hollinger said:
>>    When I work on a drawing which I have started at one computer and then
>> carried to another I notice a very strange problem.  Sometimes (not always)
>> when I retrieve on one computer a drawing started on the other computer the
>> lettering in some or all of the text lines is invisible.  At first I thought
>> those objects had (somehow) been deleted, but they haven't.  I can select
>them
>> and edit them. (If I can remember where they are, that is.)
>>
>
>What I'm pretty sure is going on is that the objects have fallen
>behind other objects on the screen. Two things to do:
>1) Refresh the screen (V D-I love it...)
>2) If it still appears behind (what will probably happen is that
>you'll see it and something will then appear to print over it.)
> You can either delete the object on top, or use the two icons at the
>bottom (the ones that look like two little boxes) to pull something
>from behind up front or push something in front behind...
Thank you for answering my message.  I'm afraid, however, that this
won't solve the problem.  The objects that appear invisible are not
"under" anything else.  I know this because in order to find the
invisible objects, I use Select Area <CR><CR> to select every object in
the drawing.  If another object were on top, I would see the little
selection boxes outlineing it.

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From:         "(Tom Dolan)" <dolan@ACUVAX.ACU.EDU>
Subject:      CapsLock gone Awry

Don't know if I should be glad or sad to find out others have the same
"sticky" CapsLock problem I have.

Solution:  <Shift><CapsLock>    resets the "shift" bit in memory.

There is no apparent single cause of the problem - but all the symptoms
seem to point to BIOS or some TSR setting the "shift"  bit "on" in the
keyboard area of memory without toggling the light on the CapsLock key.

Sure wish we could find the cause - about ten secretaries afflicted!

Tom Dolan           Dolan@Acuvax.acu.edu
Systems Manager
College of Biblical Studies
Abilene Christian University
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From: FILIPSEN_BMF@jt.dk (Bent Filipsen)
Subject: Message Router/Word Perfect Office-gateway
Organization: Jydsk TELEFON
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:30:22 GMT
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	Hi,

	Does anyone know of a mail gateway between DEC's Message Router 
	system and WordPerfect Office?  Preferably with full DDS support and 
	WP/WPS+ conversion.

	Sincerely

	Bent Filipsen
	Jutland Telephone Company
	Denmark

	e-mail: Bent.Filipsen@jt.dk
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 09:31:04 PDT
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From:         Larry <0084P@NAVPGS.BITNET>
Subject:      6.0

I heard a developer say that they figure 2-3 months in beta before they
ship. They also said 6.0 will be faster, and that file compatiblility
with WP Mac will be much better (I hadn't heard there were problems).

Here's a wonderful little WordPerfect story. It's not exactly a
request for help, but I would be curious to know if anyone else has
seen such a thing. After behaving normally for a while, a figure
appeared a page earlier than it had been.
It was an empty figure with a caption, about half a page in
size. When I tried to edit it, a neat message said "That figure is in
a Style. Please Edit it from the Style." Now, documentation says that
graphics must be on disk to be in a style, and this certainly wasn't on
disk. I looked at (with Code, Edit) the nearest style, saw no Graphics,
but then it was possible to edit the figure. Not the strangest thing I
ever saw in WPerf, but right up there.
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From:         Steve Westerholt <IACD040@UNLVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: HP DeskJes 500C driver
              25 Sep 1992 15:14:04 CDT from <RBRUNS@SYSTEM.ARKNET.EDU>

No driver exsist at this time for the HP Deskjet 500C, however, the standard
Deskjet 500 driver will alow you to print in black and white.  I have been
using this driver and have not seen any bugs using most of WP options.  If you
want to print in color, you should try WP for Windows using the windows drivers
option in the print options.  This works well and is a good reason for using
windows since I have not seen any of the WP drivers support color printing.
My guest is that this will be released in some future version.

Steve Westerholt
University of Nebraska
IACD040@UNLVM
From: 6160lacya@vms.csd.mu.edu (Alan Lacy)
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Subject: Dot Matrix fonts
Date: 1 Oct 1992 19:40:07 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
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NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

I'm looking for recommendations for fonts for a 9-pin Epson compatible
printer. They should be integratable into WP51 using some printer driver.
The shareware program LQ provides some 24 different fonts, but only
4 are available at any one time. What I'm particularly looking for is a package
that contains a landscape font or preferably fonts.

Any suggestions or recommendations?
Alan F. Lacy
Marquette University
6160lacya@vms.csd.mu.edu
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From:         John S Robinson <JSR1@VAXA.YORK.AC.UK>
Subject:      RE: Dot Matrix fonts

We have a few users with Bitstream 'Facelift for WordPerfect'.  This raises
a 9pin dm printer to the same fonts as a basic PostScript printer, but the
resolution is not so good.  This can take quite a while to print a page,
as the printer is driven in graphics mode.  You have to get used to Bitstream's
names - Swiss ^= Helvetica, Dutch ^= Times Roman.  The integration with WP is
very smooth.

John Robinson
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From: mike@childsoc.demon.co.uk (Michael Bernardi)
Subject: Spell-checkers 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Children's Society
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:40:55 +0000

Following on from the from the subject of misspelling to VALID words that are
not included. The one that springs to mind at once (in WP50 AND WP51) is that
small and insignificant word "lost" which appears to have got lost :-)

Are there many other words that should be in the WP Checker, and are not?
                Mike
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From:         UAHWBW01@UAHVAX1.BITNET
Subject:      RE: Exiting the Office Shell with a DOS batch file

Earlier:

I am running the WordPerfect Office on a Novell network and I am trying to
find a quick way of switching accounts using the shell.  What I would like
to do is to write a batch file that will exit the shell and begin to
initiate the login procedure in DOS for another account.  Does anyone know a
command I can use that will allow me to exit the shell while running a batch
file from the shell?

Possible solution from non-Novell user:

        What if you use a macro sometihing liked

                {Shell}c
                xxx.bat
                {Enter}
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From:         "A. Kaniss" <dashiell@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL>
Subject: Re: Q: debugger for macro's?

sometimes it may help to make a table of values such that
you list on a test case all variables and all values expected after each
line of execution in a macro.  Then if you can get your macro to
write out a corresponding table of values in the same format it's
a simple matter to use a utility like diff to compare the two
files and your first difference line is also your first error line.

<dashiell@nadc.navy.navy.mil>
I majored in programming not typing!
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From:         ANDI WILLIAMS <AWILLIAMS@VAX2.LUTON.AC.UK>
Subject:      RE: foreign dictonaries

Gregory Deatz signs off his message to the list...

> __________________________________________________
>I                                 I                I
>I   Gregory Deatz                 I (908) 220-9479 I
>I   RPO 5586 PO 5063              I________________I_____________
>I   New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5063  I                              I
>I_________________________________I                              I
>I                                  \  It's Greg, one `g'........ I
> \  Available at:                   \                            I
>  \      deatz@remus.rutgers.edu     \___________________________I
>   \     deatz@gandalf.rutgers.edu   I                           \
>    \    deatz@cancer.rutgers.edu    I  So tell me, how much are  I
>     \   deatz@pm-gate.rutgers.edu   I  they   going   to  raise  I
>      \______________________________I  tuition this year?   And  I
>                                     I  how  large  a  raise  is  I
>    Don't you hate it when somebody  I  Francis getting? (Hmm..)  I
>    posts something to a newsgroup,  I____________________________I
>    and the whole  article  is  the
>    article to which that person is supposedly responding?

The answer to his question at the bottom is yes, and also when people put such
unnecessarily long 'signatures'.  It is expensive for people who use dial-up
lines and pay for these messages by the line, and it also puts unnecessary
loading on the networks (especially when there are thousands of subscribers as
with this list).

Regards...

Andi Williams (AWILLIAMS@VAX2.LUTON.AC.UK) 14 Chaul End Lane, Luton LU4 8EZ. UK
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:03:57 EDT
From: <RICHARD@auvm.american.edu>
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Subject: Footnotes: Incorrect & Unexpected Fonts

I most use Courier 10 to print text from WP 5.0 to my HPIII.
I've been experiencing situations where the text prints in Courier but the
footnote prints in Universal Bold or Times Roman.   (In view document, the
footnote appears correctly in Courier but prints incorrectly!)

I've tried all the obvious fixes -- placing a Courier base font in front of
the footnote, checking that the Format-Document-Initial-Font (Shift F8-3) is
set to Courier 10, removing all graphics from the document and so on.
Nothing seems to help.

Has anyone experienced incorrect footnote fonts and found the why and the
solution?

Thanks
Richard Edelman

The American University
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From:         Johan Berteloot <JBERTELO@RKC.UFSIA.AC.BE>
Subject:      Re: Spell check and foreign accents

Hi,

A part of your text can be excluded from spell-checking by putting a non-
existing language code (like e.g. XX) in the text. WP won't find the
corresponding dictionaries and will give an error message with an option
to continue with the next language. So a the start of a part to skip
put the XX-language code and at the end put the code of the language you are
writing.
Hope this helps,
--- Johan

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From: REITSMAC@DENISON.BITNET (Charlie Reitsma)
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Subject: Re: Macro for Business Cards?
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:45:00 GMT
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>The subject sayes it all. Does anyone have a macro or whatever to generate
>stardard sized business cards? Or does anyone have any ideas on how to go
>about it?

Define a paper size and use the labels feature.  Measure the size of the
business card you want.  Figure out how many will fit on an 8 1/2 x 11 inch
physical page.  On the labels menu indicate the size of the card and the
number across and down a page, set margins if you want.

Once defined you select it in a document's initial codes.  Each logical page
is one business card.

Essentially, all the directions in the manuals concerning mailing labels
apply.  You are just creating an odd sized label that won't be pasted on an
envelope.  I use this all the time for nametags, slide labels, folder tags,
luggage tags, diskette labels, envelopes, booklets, ...
From: deatz@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Gregory H Deatz)
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Subject: Re: RE: foreign dictonaries
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:19:25 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Well, well, well, it appears I offended someone with my large
signature file because of a comment at the bottom as you will see. It
was a JOKE!!!!! Get into reality...............
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I   RPO 5586 PO 5063              I________________I_____________
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I                                  \  It's Greg, one `g'........ I
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    \    deatz@cancer.rutgers.edu    I  So tell me, how much are  I
     \   deatz@pm-gate.rutgers.edu   I  they   going   to  raise  I
      \______________________________I  tuition this year?   And  I
                                     I  how  large  a  raise  is  I
    Don't you hate it when somebody  I  Francis getting? (Hmm..)  I
    posts something to a newsgroup,  I____________________________I
    and the whole  article  is  the
    article to which that person is supposedly responding?
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