--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DG100002 Date: 11/29/96 From: BARRY KOHLER Time: 04:50pm \/To: FRANK BERGERON (Read 7 times) Subj: OLD TO NEW CPU FB>Having just gone through an upgrade, I might be able to offer some FB>advice. Mine was simply a new, larger hard drive. I have a tape FB>backup, that I made sure was recent. In addition, I put the dos tape FB>program on disk, in the event I had to re-install it. Frank-- Long time no type! Your suggestions are good ones, and I will do at least that. Since the computer is new, however, I thought it might be better off to do a new install, rather than try to restore on machine B from a tape made on machine A. Assuming, of course, that I decide to stick with Word7. Has anyone around here had a chance to look at the version of Word that will be in Office 97? What differences are there? Upgrade as soon as it is available or hold off? Regards from ME! --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: *AcornBBS*Freeport,ME*USA*207-865-3004* (1:326/406) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DG100003 Date: 11/29/96 From: LAWRENCE KELLIE Time: 06:51pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 7 times) Subj: Reveal Codes > BD>>ability to put portrait headers and footers on a landscape oriented > page. > BD>>Landscape headers and footers are just plain dumb. > I quite agree. That's my biggest headache at the moment, and I > have shelved it pending a discussion with the staff. > I tried using word-art to get the header, but it looks so > scraggy. WordArt also has some limitations in this respect. The one that convinced us of its unusability was the fact that the fonts could not be smaller than 12 point. When you want a portrait footer containing file location, 12 points is too large. Lawrence ... The Earth is 98% full. Please delete anyone you can. --- FMail 1.0g * Origin: Cala Creek Resort (in seclusion) (1:343/70.164) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DG100004 Date: 11/30/96 From: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES Time: 05:57am \/To: BARRY KOHLER (Read 7 times) Subj: Mail Merge BK>and referral sources. Some mailings will go to all three groups, others BK> Is mail merge the technique to do this, or is there an add-in for BK>create a database) that I could sort by area code, community, etc. BK>rather than have to enter a name in only one of the three lists. You've got the idea. Mail-merge (in any word-processor) will do the truck. In Word6 (But I suppose for Word7 too) I could set up a table whose columns are name, address, postcode, etc., with a column for a coded field. If selection criteria are all binary (they sent/did not send me a Christmas present last year, they do/do not own a pet, ...) your codes could be binary, combined into one value that occupies one column of the table. Thus "sent me"=0/1, "own"=0/2, car="0/4", "sex=0/8" etc. A female owning a car but not a pet, and did send me a present would be represented by the codes 1, 0, 4, 8 and so I'd put the value 13 in the column. Christopher.Greaves@ability.org * 1st 2.00b #6263 * People and Computers --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0150 * Origin: Pro-Mail Communications - Toronto Canada (1:250/1004) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DG200000 Date: 12/01/96 From: DICK BARMANN Time: 01:43pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: Word/Internet Assistant Hi All, how's it going? I hope this is not off topic. I have just joined this echo and have a problem. I have made a slide presentation and loaded it in word. It is HTML. Word will pull up a Browser to review it. It brings up Netscape. I would like it to bring up Internet Explorer. Is there a way to choose browsers? Is there an easy way to resize the slides to fit a web page? I have been clicking on the slide and filling in the size at Vidio and Options. -=> Yours sincerely, Dick Barmann <=- Thanks and take care! Dick Barmann - Covington,GA.USA, Sunday, December 1, 1996 at 13:44. Fido : 1:133/5009.1 - Internet : reb@randomc.com URL : http://www.randomc.com/~reb .!. Do televangelists do more than lay people? --- Terminate 4.00/Pro * Origin: Protect our Freedoms! Learn and Use PGP! (1:133/5009.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DG200001 Date: 11/26/96 From: BRYAN HANKS Time: 10:28pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: PASS VALUES BETWEEN MACRS First Christopher said, "PASS VALUES BETWEEN MACRS" to Bob, but then... CG> There appears to be no in-session method of passing such values. Get the WORD DEVELOPER's KIT. There are several ways to do it: - Open a blank document and read-write the data there. - Write a WLL (word-DLL) and use it to save a common memory area. - Use DDE to copy data across. This would require two copies of word (don't know if this is ok for you, but is an alternative) running - one is the server, the other the client. ... Snap, Crackle and Pop found dead, Cereal killer suspected --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 [NR] * Origin: The Fireside BBS Houston, Texas (1:106/114) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DG200002 Date: 12/01/96 From: TERRENCE BRANSCOMBE Time: 11:02pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: HUNGARIAN CHARACTERS IN W This message was originally addressed to J METZGER and a carbon copy was sent to you. ---------------------------------------- I took your advice and am extremely glad I did. The MS site had a short article, not on codepages, but on the use of fields to create unmapped foreign language characters. The results are even better than I would have got had I found codepage support since I don't have to adhere to the prescribed keyboard layout in the KEYBOARD.SYS file. The one shortcoming is that this method will require a bit of work for EACH font type or size that you may want to use. For myself, I merely want to prepare personal letters, so I'm happy with run-of-the-mill Times New Roman 12 point. Essentially, the steps I took were to create a new Document Template and store each special character as an AutoText entry. Each AutoText entry can then be mapped to the keyboard in a way that makes sense to you. Most of the special characters I need for writing in Hungarian are supported in the Times New Roman character map and can simply be mapped to a place on my keyboard. There are 4 characters in Hungarian which do not have that support: the capital and lowercase forms of O-vesszo and U-vesszo (basically a slanted double-acute mark centred over the letter). Luckily, this mark happens to be very similar to one found in the Windows Symbol font at position 178. Knowing this, you can create the character the Insert Field command in Word by nesting a SYMBOL field within an EQ field as follows: 1. Click "Field..." on the Insert menu to open the FIELD dialogue box 2. Select "Equations and Formulas" under Categories and then EQ under Field Names 3. To create a capital O-vesszo, enter the following text after the "EQ" in the Field Codes box: O\d\ba6()\s\up3() (NB: the first character is a capital O) 4. Press OK and return to the editing screen in Word. 5. Select (highlight) the newly created field and press Shift-F9 to open the formula up on-screen. You'll now see the entire formula, complete with bolded curly braces. 6. Move the cursor to between the last set of round brackets and once again select "Fields..." from the Insert menu. This time, though, select SYMBOL instead of EQ in the Field Names area. You are now inserting (nesting) one field into another. 7. In the Field Codes area, enter the following after "SYMBOL": 178 \f "Symbol" \h ( "178" is a double prime in the Windows Symbol font; the "\h" is maintain line spacing ) 8. Press OK and find yourself back in the gray field bar. You need to press Shift-F9 again to close the SYMBOL field, then move the cursor beyond the SYMBOL field's curly braces, but still within the those of the EQ field, and hit Shift-F9 a second time. This will close the EQ field. JM>You might want to visit Microsofts web site www.microsoft.com and see if JM>they have any patches that will do what you want. I know that I have JM>seen a file for Hungarian there as well as Chinese and Korean and quite JM>a few other languages. JM> j JM> jmetz@microfone.net JM> * OLX 2.2 * All hope abandon, ye who enter messages here. JM>--- FLAME v1.1 JM> * Origin: MicroFone 16 Lines 908-494-8666 Metuchen NJ (1:107/331) cc: ALL --- * Origin: Community Access Courtenay, BC (604) 338-4597 (1:3412/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DG200003 Date: 11/26/96 From: ANTHONY HASELMAN Time: 09:04am \/To: ERNIE HIGGINSON (Read 6 times) Subj: Mail Merge EH>Thanks for your help Anthony. The "if" may do what I need. Do you EH>know if there is any way it can insert a text file from disk (rather EH>than a database field)? Sorry I don't. Would be a nice feature though. ___ X CMPQwk #1.4X UNREGISTERED EVALUATION COPY --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Awakening - Lakewood WA (206)582-5579 HST16/V32b/VFC/V34 (1:138/102) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DG300000 Date: 12/01/96 From: JERRY RUDOFF Time: 09:49am \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 6 times) Subj: BOX AROUND EACH PAGE -> -> How do I place a single-line Box around each page in a Word6.0x -> document? The easiest manner that comes to mind is to select the draw option on your tool bar. Choose the option that allows you to make a straight line from point A to where ever. Draw your box as needed. Hope this works for you. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Crime Bytes: Take A MegaByte Out of Crime 1:135/5 (1:135/5.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DG400000 Date: 11/23/96 From: ALEX MCCONNELL Time: 01:32pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: Word 7 saving Hello all, Is there anyway to make MS Word 7 save in Word 2 format? I can't find this option anywhere! Thanks in advance --- * Origin: Melbourne PC User Group BBS (3:632/309)