This www.apc.net/ia/scrtips.htm page is provided as a courtesy to Screenwright(R) clients and visitors, and it includes a couple of tips to aid in your use of WPWin 6.1. The first helps get rid of an annoying prompt, and the second deals with positioning the Find and Replace dialog box. There are also some general WPWin resources at the bottom of the page, including a patch for Windows 95 users (and others).

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DRIVE IS NOT READY

If you play a macro from your floppy drive, WPWin will periodically require a diskette to be inserted, until after you've played enough hard drive macros to make WPWin "forget" the floppy drive macro.

Also, if you exit WPWin while you're defaulted to your floppy drive, it will sometimes poll the drive, looking for a diskette.

Both of these WPWin bugs may be corrected by playing the Clear 'Drive Not Ready' Prompt macro (partially adapted from "killmac.wcm" on page 31 of the July 1996 WordPerfect for Windows magazine). All references to macros played from your A and B drives will be cleared off the history list, and your Documents directory is reset to the default. To install this macro, hold down your Shift key while left-clicking the Download hyperlink location at the end of this paragraph, and save it to disk. Specify the download directory (on "Save As..." menu) to be your Macros directory - usually c:\office\wpwin\macros (note: some browsers require that you choose "Save File..." to bring up the "Save As..." directory listing, or select "Cancel" if you get a security warning, or pick "Save Link/Target As..." when you right-click). After you finish downloading, and just before the next time you exit WPWin (with all screens empty), press Alt+F10, and enter clear. Download clear.wcm (5K)

The above macro will fix most routine situations, but sometimes you may need to play four hard drive macros. To manually create and play four harmless macros, perform the following keystrokes four times while you're defaulted to your hard drive, replacing W with X, then Y, then Z:

Ctrl+F10
  W
Enter
Alt+F3
Ctrl+F10
Alt+F10
  W
Enter

FIND CORNER

The positioning of the Find and Replace dialog box at the bottom center of the screen sometimes obscures the view of text following a search string. Ordinarily, this wouldn't present much of a problem, but there are occasions where a portion of that hidden text might affect decisions you would make in a prompted Replace routine. And Replaces at the end of a document are always tricky...

This solution involves creating a smaller version of the WPWin editing window (by clicking on the double-arrow button at the upper right corner of the WPWin edit screen), and then using the Move and Size functions (by clicking on the "dash" box at the top left of the smaller window). When the smaller WPWin window is approximately the size of the Find and Replace dialog box, and positioned in the upper right corner of the screen, click the upper right single arrow to bring it back to full size. If you need help moving and sizing the window, click Help in the Windows Program Manager, and select the Windows Tutorial. You can test the screen placement of the Find and Replace Text dialog box by pressing {F2} (note: it won't execute in a blank document).

Now record a template macro named "FIND CORNER" (Tools, Template Macro, Record, FIND CORNER, {Enter}, {Click double arrow upper right}, {Click single arrow upper right}, Tools, Template Macro, Record)

Next, edit the template macro (Tools, Template Macro, Edit, FIND CORNER, {Enter}) and this set of commands will appear:

Application (A1; "WordPerfect"; Default; "US")
AppRestore ()
AppMaximize ()

At the beginning of the AppMaximize () line, type the command:

FindDlg ()

plus a space [resulting in: FindDlg () AppMaximize ()], then type, below it:

AppActivate (AppLocate ("Find and Replace Text"))

on a line by itself at the end. Now save the template macro (File, Close, Yes) and assign it to your current toolbar (Edit, Preferences, Toolbar, {Enter}, Edit, Add a Button To: Play a Macro, Add Template Macro, FIND CORNER, {Enter}, {Click OK}, Close, Close).

From now on, whenever you click the new cassette button "FIND CORNER" on the toolbar, the Find and Replace Text dialog box will display in the upper right corner of your screen!

Burning Typewriter: Would you like a powerful writer's image as your Windows (or other system) background graphic? In 3.x, choose Main, Control Panel, Desktop, to record the name of your current Wallpaper File, in case you want to undo your work. Then visit "Hommage" 1974 by Leopoldo M. Maler, which is located at The Hess Collection. After loading, simply right-click on it, and select Set As Wallpaper! [To make a smaller version, paste its URL into the Graphics section at Anikó J. Bartos - Conversion and choose Shrink to Purée, so WebFX can chop it down to size.]

WPWIN RESOURCES

By popular demand, here are instructions for joining the WPWIN-L mailing list, which offers lots of help on any WPWin-related question. To receive eMail from heavy users and experts all over the world, just insert your name as you would like it to appear on the list, and send only the following message in the body of an eMail (the automated LISTSERV ignores the Subject line):