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WordPerfect doesn't have a specific setting to change the main document screen colors. If you want to change the colors WordPerfect uses, you have to change the Windows colors and then tell WordPerfect to use those colors.
Choose Edit, Preferences (or Tools, Settings). Double-click Display and select the Windows System Colors check box. Choose OK, then Close. WP should now use the colors you selected in Control Panel.
If you want to change the colors, simply repeat these steps and choose the desired colors.
Note: When you change the system colors, dialog box lists, check boxes and other items will also use the background and text colors you chose. Also, some color combinations can be hard to read, especially with certain fonts.
Copy the following files for safe keeping and updating in your own personal directory. Add the
copy command to your autoexec.bat file if desired.
(actual name of Corel may be different and version number)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Corel User Files\all files here
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\COREL\PerfectExpert\11\Custom WP Templates\wp11US.wpt
If desired, do a search on your computer (and save) all the files found for:
WP11US*.* and WT11US*.* (change the version number for the version you are using)
If you use a word or phrase (or sentence or paragraph) often in documents, you may want to be able to insert that phrase into your document just by choosing it from a menu.
To add a phrase to a menu, select Play a keyboard Script from the Menu Bar Editor dialog box. In the text box that appears, type the text you often use, then choose Add Script. The first word in your script appears on the menu bar.
You can change the name of this menu as described in the second paragraph of Make a menu above. You can then click and drag it to be a menu item in any menu you like--or you can leave it as a menu of its own.
Try using one of the templates to get started. File, New, Publish, or File, New From Project and select WordPerfect from the top box and Newsletter from the box. Then click on Create
Add abbreviations to your Quick Correct. Example, you can add op to automatically replace
the word ophthalmology just by typing op
Go to Tools, QuickCorrect and add the abbreviations of your choice...and take notice of ones that are currently there.
No, you can't use Quick Correct with sub/superscript characters like CO2. But, you can use Abbreviation. Just type the text exactly as you want it to appear such as CO2. Now Select that text and go to Insert, Abbreviations, Create. Type in for name of the abbreviation (ex: co2), press OK, then Close.
Now to use this feature, you'll just type co2, press Ctrl+Shift+A (or Insert, Abbreviation, select co2 then press Expand). CO2 will appear for you.
Edit your main Toolbar. (Right-click on the Toolbar and choose edit. Select the circle Launch A Program. Choose the file calc.exe from the Windows directory, click OK. Edit the 2 windows to say Calculator, and Launch the calculator. Click OK. There's your calculator
Use abbreviations for graphics you use frequently. Even same sentences, words, phrases, formatting features and more.
Using Ctrl+A will replace any abbreviation name you have after you type it. Just ensure that your insertion pointer is within the abbreviation.
When you generate an index, you are given the option to use the index as a hyperlink. Choose yes to this option and in the future, all you will need to do after you look in the index for an item, is to lick on the number within the index.
This problem can easily be added to your dictionary so that when Spell Checker is run, the proper replacement will be an option.
Click on Tool, QuickCorrect
In the top left box for Replace, type the misspelled word, such as tot he
In box next to it for With..., type in to the. Click on Add Entry, and OK
When inserting an underline that can be filled in later and on top of the underline, you can use one of 3 things.
1: use a mono spaced font, such as Courier New
2: Utilize the Underline Tabs feature
3: Insert a horizontal line and resize it accordingly
Format, Font, and put the check in the box for Underline
Click on the Underline tab and make your choice if you want the underlines covering the spaces of the tabs that you use, probably 'All'.
When you want to add something to the clipboard, all you need to do is highlight what you want to add, select Edit, Append. You can repeat this process as much as you want to.
Just the Files Ma'am
Go to File, Open. Go to the directory that you want a print of. Now click on File Options, Print File List, Print
Hey, now that was short and sweet.
Right-click on your side scroll bar. Now select Go To...
Now that was even shorter ;-)
Did you know that your status bar at the bottom on the WP window can be set to your liking? Just right-click on the status bar at the bottom on the window and select Settings (or Preferences). The buttons will come or go as you want. They are just like the Toolbars, you can move them to a different location on the status bar too and even resize them sideways.
Here's a shortcut to quickly closing a file without saving it--all in one step. (This way, you don't have to choose File, Close and answer No when you don't want to save the changes.)
Just add the "Close Without Saving" feature to a Toolbar or the Power Bar. Right-click the Toolbar or Power Bar that you want to add the button to and choose Edit. Select Close w/o Saving in the Features: list box and choose Add Button. The new button is added to the end of the Toolbar or Power Bar. You can move it by clicking and dragging it to whatever position you want. Choose OK.
Now, whenever you have a document that you want to close and don't need to save, just click your Close Without Saving button. Tip: If you're a keyboard user, you can also press (Ctrl+Shift+F4) to access the Close Without Saving feature.
If you accidentally add a misspelled word to your supplementary dictionary during a spell-check, it's easy to remove it by editing the supplementary dictionary file. Go to a blank document screen and choose Tools, Spell Check, No. From the Options (or Customize): pop-down button, choose User Word Lists.
Your default word list, WT11US, should be selected (version number may vary). Select the word you want to remove from the list at the bottom of the dialog box and choose Delete Entry. Repeat this to remove any other words you don't want. When you're finished, choose Close twice.
All you have to do is press Ctrl+G and select Previous Position. Very helpful if your working on a long document and don't remember where you were when you accidently clicked somewhere after scrolling down.
Hint: You can also right-click in the scroll bar area and choose Go To.
If you want to save a document, say called... My Document.tra, instead of My Document.wpd,
then just type quotations before and after the filename.ext. Like this "My Document.tra". It will
show up in your explorer as an unassociated file.
When you double click on the file, Windows may ask you what program you want to use to open it. Choose from the list, (or you may have to choose Select Program From A list then choose WordPerfect and choose Always Open...at the bottom.
Now it will open in WordPerfect all the time.
In a blank document type something like: www.comcast.net
Now click on Format, Styles. Select Hypertext in the list and then Edit. Make your changes and press OK, but don't click on OK in the Styles dialog box.
Next click on Options at the bottom, then Copy and put the dot in the circle for Default Template then click on OK.
Choose Options, one more time. Then Setttings and put the dot in the cirlce for Default Template
Click on OK
Click on Options one more time and choose Save As
Type in the exact same name as the original: Hypertext
Click on OK, Yes and Close
Now your default hyperlinks will have their new style. You can still change them individually per
document by using the Hypertext Feature Bar (Hypertext/Web links y activating the bar
(Tools Hypertext...)
You probably have the Preview mode set. There is a button on the Toolbar dialog box (third from the right). Click on that box and the preview side will go away so all you're looking at are the files and their details. The next time you use your Open dialog box, it will show up faster.
You just need to edit your preferences. Tools, Settings, Display, (or Edit, Preferences, Display) Reveal Codes (tab). You can change the size of the fonts by clicking on the Font button on the left side as well as the size of the font (or depending on your version, percentage of the window used to display them.)
To save time. Just ask my son, Steve (15). He showed me just how useful it became when he
had to type a report and it could only be 4 pages long. He began using the highlighting feature to
select text that may be deleted if necessary. When he found he had 5 pages, he just went back to
the highlighted text areas and chose which sections he could delete. What a time saver feature
that turned out to be.
All you have to do is select the text you want highlighted in yellow then click on the Highlight
button (or click on Tools, Highlight, Highlight On.). Highlight your next part you want highlighted in yellow and do the same thing.
Another way is to click on the highlight button and just start typing (or Tools, Highlight,
Highlight On then start typing). When you're done with text you want highlighted in yellow, click on Tools, Highlight and click on the On again to remove the check mark and it'll go off.
If you have a file that you want to make sure that the text/data/ is not edited or deleted by accident, just create a table, type the text/data. Next, select the cell(s) and choose Table, Format, Cell and select Lock. Now change the properties of the table so there are no borders. You may wish to change the margins of the cell(s) and table so the distance between the text around the protected text won't be so obvious.
If you want to have the protected text in a table but have regular text next to the table, see the tip for Text To The Right Of Table
Each time I get into WordPerfect, I invariably start the file called New Tips and do some work on it. (Guess I should do it a little more often at times, since that file is the one you're looking at right now).
I now have it set so each time I start WordPerfect, that file opens up automatically. Here are 2 different ways you can accomplish the same task:
Option 1:
In WordPerfect, go to Edit, Preferences, Environment. In the section for Save Workspace, place a checkmark in the box for Always and a checkmark in Set Quickmark On Exit. This is great for when you are working on a document and always want to start where you left off. However, a drawback is that next time WordPerfect starts, it will open any and all documents that you had open last time you had WordPerfect open and closed the program with files still open. (did I lose you on that one? :) )
Example: WordPerfect is open. You have 2 documents open, one called FlagDays and anothercalled WishList. You want to have WishList open each time you open WordPerfect. You must close the file FlagDays and leave WishList open. Then close WordPerfect
Note: The Quickmark will not function if you have WP to open to an .htm or .html document
Option 2:
Open an Explorer and navigate your way to the Start menu where the shortcut for the WordPerfect program is. Right-click on the shortcut key and click on Properties then click on the Shortcut tab. In the Target: box type this:
"C:\Program Files\Corel\WPWin7\WPWIN.EXE" /open "c:\0Tracy\word processing\Flagdays.wpd"
The second part (after /open will be the location of the file you want to always open up for you.
Note: This same command line can be used if you have an AnyKey keyboard and you program one of your keys to open WordPerfect
Note: you can remove any templates you created by accident just by right clicking on the template in the list and choose Remove Project, then OK.
If you've found a WordPerfect file that just won't open, probably because it's corrupted, you may still be able to recover it. Use QuickView (or QuickView Plus). From here you can copy all the information and paste it in a new document. You will have to do the formatting again, but heck, it beats losing the file completely.
Yes, you can have 3/4 changed automatically to . Or even 5/8 changed to e. Click on Tools, QuickCorrect. Now type 5/8 in the first box then press the tab key. Next press Ctrl+W. This will bring up the WordPerfect Characters dialog box. You may have to do some finding, but many of the characters you'll find in Typographic Symbols. Click on the button under the words Character Set and change to Typograpic Symbols. Scroll down until you see e and click on Insert And Close. Then press the Add Entry button.
Now every time you type 5/8 then a space, QuickCorrect will change it to e. Do this with any fractions you want that are available in your WordPerfect Characters sets.
If you have WordPerfect 7.0 and higher, you have a GREAT QuickView program. When you installed WordPerfect, however, the program called QuickView Plus is not installed. You need to go to the WordPerfect CD and scroll down to the QVP directory and run the setup program.
This program will let you QuickView most any file, (animated gif's not included).
After you've installed QuickView Plus, you can go to the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Windows Setup and delete the checkmark for QuickView. There is no reason to have both on your computer.
You are working away and now you've copied and pasted from, say OutLook Express or Notepad. Now you see all those red slash marks saying something is spelled wrong. Here's how you can quickly get them out.
First, view your codes (View, Reveal Codes) Next place your cursor just before that rotten code then select it (hold your shift key down and press the right arrow). Then copy it (Ctrl+C). Now go to Edit, File/Replace. Click in the top box and paste it (Ctrl+V). Then click on Replace All.
If you find that you do this procedure quite often, create a macro button for it and place it on your Toolbar for quick access. This procedure can vary so I'll give 2 examples. The beginning of the instructions will still be the same, the change is in step 8.
1. Do some copy & pasting until you can create the problem.
2. Click on View, Reveal Codes
3. Place the cursor just before the offending code and take note of what the codes says. (See the
examples below)
4. Click on Tools, Macro, Record
5. Type Delchar.wcm and press OK
6. Press Ctrl+{Home}
7. Click on Edit, Find & Replace
Here is where the changes come in...
Example 1: 12,160 code---If you place your cursor before the offending code and you see the
number 12,160 (or something like that), do the following:
8. Press and hold the Alt key then press the second number you saw on the code (such as 160)
Example 2: HAdv code---If you place your cursor before the offending code and you see letters such as HAdv, do the following:
8. Click on Match, Codes. Slide down until you see the HAdv code and click on Insert And Close.
Now to continue...
9. Click on Replace All, then click on Close
10. Click on the stop button to stop the macro. (The stop button is the black square on your
Macro bar)
11. Now place a button on your Toolbar for this macro:
Right click on the Toolbar, select Edit and click on the Macro tab.
Click on Add Macro and double-click on the macro called Delchar. Then select No.
Right-click on the new button that looks like a cassette and select Customize. Press the Edit button and draw a picture that will help you remember what this button is for
Click on OK for this window and the next 2 windows until you are back to WordPerfect as usual
From now on when you get these offending characters, all you have to do is click the button and they will all go away.
NOTE: If you have both offending characters, you will need to create a macro for each rotten character.
Why use this?
You're in a document that you work on frequently...changing, adding, deleting. And at the end of each session you find that you always go to the beginning of the document and play the same macro, or that you always perform the same procedures.
Instead of performing these steps manually, just click on the link and those procedures will perform for you, rather quickly too.
Click on Tools, Hypertext Web/Links to show the links bar.
Presuming you are always at the beginning of the document when you do your tasks, go to the beginning of the document now. Now type a simple word that you will, in the future, be clicking on to perform these functions. Now select the text that text and click on Create (on the links bar)
Click in the circle for Macro then click on the icon at the end of the box to locate the macro you want. Click on Select, then OK.
Your text will now be in a different color and be underlined. In the future, when you click on those words, it will perform the tasks for you...and quickly.
Another Example: You always edit a document and create a new calendar in the document. First you would delete the current calendar, then click on your new "link". This macro link is something you might have typed CALENDAR and then created the link to the 7CAL macro.
Note: You can't do this in an HTML document that you are going to send to the Internet, but you can do it for your own page on your computer. This gives you the feel of the Internet on your own documents.
You want to have text going up (or down) the side of the document. Well first you need to create a text box. Then just type one single word in the text box. Now highlight (or select) this word.
Click outside the box, then right click on the box and choose Content. Select 90 degrees to make the text go from the bottom of the box to the top, or choose 270 degrees so the text will read from the top of the box to the bottom.
Now (after you've chosen the rotation degrees) right-click on the box and choose Edit Text. It will appear as if a new document has started, but it hasn't. Now you can adjust the font type, size, and most other aspects.
You can even try putting in a picture so the picture will be at a rotation. Why? I just used it for a map that I needed on a rotation. You would use the same procedures for inserting a picture just as you normally would anywhere else in WordPerfect.
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