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Adding new buttons to bars
Editing Toolbars
Hide the tool/power bar
Icon Appearance
More Toolbar icons at once!!
New Menu bar to add to your new menu
Paste text inside different formatting
Power Bar Extended
Sub-menus and creating New Menu bars
Table Toolbars
Templates and Toolbars
Templates from the Toolbar
Templates show the Toolbars you customized
Toolbars & Menubars & Dictionary imported from previous version of WP
Edit your Toolbars. Delete as many of those things you don't need. I personally find it faster to press Ctrl C and Ctrl V rather than using the mouse and clicking on the button. Therefore I took all the cut, copy and paste buttons off all of my Toolbars. The easiest way to add a bunch is to ensure that you have the power bar set for icons only. No text.
Add some of those 'different' buttons and try them out. Some that you may enjoy are Split tables, Join tables, split cell, join cells and convert to text. You know how when in a table, you want just that one cell to be covered over 2 cell sizes. You can with the button join cell. Give it a try. It's great.
To keep the Toolbar you want for your templates, you need to edit each template individually and save. Do this by:
1. Choosing the template then select Edit Template from the Option pop-down menu.
2. Choose Copy/Remove Object from the Template Feature Bar.
3. Select the button Bar that you want to use in this template from the list of button bars.
4. Chose Copy, then Close
5. Choose Associate from the Feature Bar.
6. In the List, box, select Main
7. From the Toolbar drop-down list, select your new Toolbar you just copied
8. Choose OK and Exit Template and select Yes
If you want to start a template you created with just a push of a button on your Toolbar, you need to make a few modifications first.
On a blank document, press Tools, Macro, Record and give the macro a name. Next choose File, New, and with you keyboard select the template you want to use and choose Select. In the dialog box, if it shows, asking for template information or personal information, choose Cancel.
Now stop the macro by clicking on Tools, Macro, Record. Close the document without saving.
Next, add the macro button to your Toolbar. Right click on the Toolbar, select Edit. Click on the Macros tab and click on Add Macro. Navigate your way to the macro you just created, or type in the name of the macro, and choose Select, Yes (to save with full path)
Double click on the new icon on your Toolbar (it will look like a cassette). Type in the information you want in both boxes. Click on Edit and create a special looking design for your new button for your new template.
You can add buttons without going through the entire list of features. If you know where you can get to it by using the menu bar, You can add it from there just by clicking on the menus.
Several icons are a generic icon for different functions. These icons can be changed entirely to your drawing or altered slightly from an original to distinguish from another icon. Change the looks of an icon in WP or tool tip description.
a. Right click on tool bar, select Edit
b. Right click on the icon you want to change
c. Select Customize...
d. Change the top word to change the quick tip that pops up Change the bottom word to change the words that are displayed at the very top of the WP screen
e. Select Edit... to change the looks of the icon. In there you can draw your own. You can also back up and select a different icon to customize, then select edit. At this point you can select Copy. Then back out and go the icon you want to change. Press clear, then paste. Example. Print icon is a printer. Print Page icon is 2 yellow folders. Select the Printer icon to edit and copy, then select Print Page icon to clear the screen and past the Printer icon there and make changes. i.e. change the paper to yellow. White page will represent Print. Yellow page will represent Print Page
Hide your tool/power bar sometimes when you want to work.
1. View, Hide Bars. You will get a message on how to return to your tool bars. It' by pressing the Escape button
Have more icons to do your work faster.
Right click on the power bar (top row of icons), and select Edit. Change the Feature Categories from PowerBar to another category.
Click once on the feature you want to add to the PowerBar. Then drag the words to the location on the power bar of your choice.
Careful that you don't put to many on the power bar. If there are more that the bar can hold, you'll never see them. On the tool bar, you see arrows to view the next set. The power bar doesn't offer that option. You may want to delete a few button anyway, just to see if there are any hidden ones. When you're done getting rid of those extras, go back and add the buttons you want.
Turn a submenu into a menu. You may have features you use often, but that you have to access via a submenu. You'll find that getting to the feature is much simpler if it has a menu of its own. For instance, why not give your macros a menu of their own?
To change a submenu into a menu, while in the Tool Bar Editor dialog box, move your mouse pointer to the menu that currently contains the submenu you want to move--such as the Tools menu. As soon as you move the pointer over the menu (you don't need to click), your pointer turns into a hand and the menu drops down.
Without clicking, move your pointer down the menu until the hand is over the submenu you want to turn into a menu--for example, you might move the pointer so it's right over Macro. Click on it and drag it where you want the menu--for example, right beside the Tools menu--and release the mouse button. The new menu drops in place.
Maybe you'd like to have a completely new menu--one that contains features, macros, programs or phrases you use often. You can make a menu from scratch by clicking on the Menu icon in the bottom right corner of the Menu Bar Editor dialog box, then dragging it to the location on the menu bar where you want the new menu to go. When your release the mouse button, the word Menu appears on the bar.
Double-click Menu, and the Edit Menu Text dialog box appears. In the Menu Item: text box, type the name you want the menu to be, putting an & symbol before the character you want to be underlined. For example, if you'd like to make a menu called Phrases, type & Phrases". In the Help Prompt: text box, type a brief phrase describing the types of menu items in this menu. Choose ok.
Once you've created a menu, you have several ways of adding items to it. If you want to put a feature in the menu, select the Activate a Feature radio button, then select the type of feature you're looking for from the Feature Categories: drop-down list. The type of features listed in the Features: list box depends on what you select in this drop-down list. Scroll through the Features: list box until you see the feature you want, then click and drag it to the menu where you want it. As your mouse pointer gets to the menu, the menu drops down. Keep dragging your menu item to the place in the menu you want it, then release the mouse button.
Right click on the Toolbar, select Preferences, Options and change the number of Maximum Number of Rows...
If you move the Toolbar to the left side of the program, it will frees up more screen space vertically. You need more vertical viewing than horizontal space anyway.
You want to make sure that when you choose a template to work with, that it works with the Toolbars you have set up, including ones with new buttons you've added. It's not really that hard. You will have to adjust these templates each time you change your Toolbar to add or delete a button. So, just change the templates you'd use the most, or templates you've created personally. Example: your newsletter layout, your personalized letterhead stationary etc...
Just do the following.
File, New, select a template to change. (Start with the Greeting Card or Thank-You card in the Publish section),select Options, Edit.
Now, a bit of add/removing
This will make sure that any buttons you've added to your Toolbar will show up on any templates made prior to adding new buttons
When adding new buttons, always choose No when it comes to "save macro with full path". If you choose yes, it will save the macro with the Toolbar. Sounds confusing, but, if you want to be able to use the button on more Toolbars than one, and share the macro with other computers, you should always choose NO.
You find that you want to cut and paste a section of your document that has 12 point font and Times New Roman. However the place you want to paste it has a font size of 10 and a style of Arial.
Instead of using the Ctrl+V (Edit, Paste) after you've done Ctrl+X (or Edit, Cut), try using Ctrl+Shift+V (or Edit, Paste Special, and choosing WordPerfect Text or Unformatted text)
You can place an icon on your Toolbar if you use this feature frequently. Just edit your Toolbar and add Paste Simple (from Edit feature category)
Toolbar Importing from Previous version of WP
1. Toolbars, PowerBars, MenuBars
Much of your personalization (customized toolbars, menus, styles, and others) is maintained in your default template. If you used the default directory & files when you installed the older version, your default template file will be WP#XX.WPT (where # is the number and XX is replaced by your language version of the program such as US or CF) and it will probably be found in /Corel/Suite#/Template/Custom WP Templates.
After installing the new versioin, copy - not move - your old WP#XX.WPT file to the new Custom WP Templates folder (if you used the default install paths, that should be in .../corel/WordPerfect Office ####/template/Custom WP Templates).
For XP users, you'll have to put it in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\COREL\PerfectExpert\##\Custom WP Templates (but depending on what version you are using, the folder name may be different)
From within WP, use Tools, Settings, Customize. On the Toolbars tab first click on the Toolbars tab. In the top box change the it to read the version you're pulling the info from (your older version), In the middle section, choose the toolbar you want to copy over, then in the bottom box choose the newest version as it's output.
Choose Copy. If you want to keep the newest version AND your customized version of the toolbars, then give the toolbar a new name such as Format (the original one) and Format-Mine as the new one. Then OK.
Continue with all the toolbars listed in the middle section, one at a time.
You can always delete the original version when you've have everything set as you want, then rename the Format-Mine toolbar to just Format.
When all the Toolbars are done, click on the Menus tab, if you ever changed and/or created your own menu bar.
Change the top box to read the older version template. In the middle section, select your menu you want (Probably the older version, or as in my case, I created my own complete menu bar called Mine, so I choose THAT one in the middl box). Then click on Copy
Then click on OK when finished.
When you right click on a blank space on the Menu bar, you'll have your choice of menu bars
For the Property bars tab, leave it as it is and recreate it as needed. It's *strongly* suggested that you re-create any specific modifications rather than copy over the property bars, since these are context-sensitive and different in the various version of WP For example:
If you use a WP8 template directly in WP9 as your default template, you will have difficulty handling the new envelope functionality since you will not have the one-click access to entering return or recipient addresses, address positions, envelope size, Postnet codes, etc. that are all present only on the WP9 Envelope property bar and did not exist in WP8.
If for some reason this goes awry, you can just rename WP9US.WPT and let WP9 re-create
it on startup, fresh & clean and unspoiled!
2. SpellChecker & QuickCorrect (changing the version numbers according to what versions of WP you're going from and to)
All of your QuickCorrect entries are in your UWL file, along with all spelling additions you have made when you clicked "Add" during document spell-checks.
The WT#XX.UWL files are placed in different locations depending upon your system setup. The best way to find the files on your own system is to use Start, Find. and search for *.UWL. Whichever .UWL file has the language abbreviation for your version of WP is the main one, but it doesn't hurt to back up all of the .UWL files.
Assuming you were using WT90US.UWL as your main user word list file, Suite 2000 should have picked up those entries for you. Check QuickCorrect after installing WP9 to see. If your old entries were not moved for you, find where Suite 2000 installed its .UWL files, re-name WT9US.UWL (assuming US version) in case you need it
again, and copy WT80US.UWL to the same location, and re-name it as WT9US.UWL.
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