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An edition of Teach Yourself WordPerfect Mac (2015)

Teach Yourself WordPerfect Mac

Second Edition

by John Rethorst

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Teaches all levels and aspects of the last version of the WordPerfect word processing program for the Macintosh.

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2015

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John Rethorst

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English

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710

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Foreword. 19

Introduction. 21

Note on the Text. 27

WPMac Support Group. 29

1: Starting Out. 31

What kind of Mac do I have?. 31

Finding and installing WordPerfect. 32

Starting to use WordPerfect. 33

How to Save. 36

The importance of saving. 40

Making changes to your file. 40

Closing your file. 42

Starting a new file. 43

Opening a file. 43

Quitting WordPerfect. 45

Summary. 46

2: Basic Word Processing. 47

Fonts and sizes. 48

Changing fonts. 48

How to select text. 50

Changing font and size of selected text. 52

Styles. 52

Scroll bars. 53

How to Undo anything. 55

Formatting with the Ruler and the Layout Bar. 56

Setting margins. 56

Tabs. 61

Justifying text. 64

Spacing. 66

First Line Indent. 68

The Status Bar. 69

Navigating around your document. 70

Printing. 74

Print Preview. 74

Page Setup. 77

The Print command. 78

Printing with fewer steps. 80

Button Bar commands to print. 80

Summary. 81

3: Intermediate Word Processing. 83

Making and saving changes to files. 83

Saving a file with a new name. 84

Find and Change. 85

Find Bar. 87

More extensive search. 88

Copy and Paste. 89

Drag and Drop. 92

Copy and Paste using the Scrapbook. 93

Correcting and improving your writing. 99

Using WordPerfect’s Speller. 99

Editing dictionaries. 102

QuickCorrect. 104

Thesaurus. 107

Repeating actions. 109

Grammatik. 110

Writing styles. 113

Word Count. 116

Form and substance. 117

Looking further . . . 118

Summary. 119

4: Basic Graphics. 121

Creating a graphic. 121

Working with graphics. 127

Layers. 127

Changing fill patterns. 129

Choosing colors. 130

Modifying graphic objects. 133

Changing shapes. 133

Text in graphics mode. 135

The Pen Color Tool. 137

Setting Pen Size. 139

Changing Pen Pattern. 140

Turning pens and fills on and off. 141

Rotating graphics. 143

Viewing graphics at any size. 143

Some other tools. 144

Moving back into word processing. 145

Graphic frames. 147

Sizing and shaping. 150

Cropping, and moving the frame but not the drawing. 152

Summary. 154

5: Advanced Graphics. 155

Complex tools. 155

Rounded Rectangles. 157

The Arc/Chord tool. 159

The Polygon tool. 160

Modifying a polygon. 163

The Layout Menu. 164

Using the Grid. 164

Other Layout commands. 166

The Arrange Menu. 168

Rotate. 168

Size. 169

Replicate. 170

Group. 174

Lock. 177

Align. 177

Position. 179

Flip. 180

Move. 181

Freehand drawing. 182

Bézier curves with the Curve Tool. 184

Working with multiple tools. 187

Advanced effects with text. 190

Watermarks and Overlays. 192

Customizing the Graphics Editor. 192

Editing patterns. 192

Save Settings. 194

Postscript on PostScript. 195

Notes . . . 196

Summary. 197

6: Tools for the Environment. 199

Interactive, context-sensitive Help. 199

WordPerfect’s main Help feature. 199

Help shortcuts. 203

Accessing Help from anywhere in the program. 204

QuickHelp. 205

Balloon Help. 206

WordPerfect Guide. 207

Automatic backups. 209

Setting program preferences. 210

Password protection. 214

Password considerations. 215

Button, Status and Ruler Bar settings. 216

The Button Bar. 216

The Status Bar. 217

Showing and hiding Bars. 220

Searching for text, and file management. 221

The File Menu. 221

The Folder Menu. 223

The Search Menu. 223

The Retain Menu. 223

The Templates and Latest Menus. 224

Show and Preview. 224

Menus in the Find/Change dialog. 225

Find Codes. 227

Fractional Character Widths. 228

Summary. 229

7: Intermediate Formatting. 231

Indenting. 232

Button Bar tools. 232

Menu Bar tools. 234

Alignment. 237

Layout Bar choices. 238

Button Bar choices. 239

Attribute formatting. 240

The Font Bar. 240

Symbols. 242

Copying attributes. 243

Setting attributes with the menus. 245

The Character Format dialog. 246

Relative Sizes. 248

Superscripts and subscripts. 250

Borders and fills. 251

Show Codes. 254

Headers and footers. 255

A more detailed look at headers and footers. 257

Page and line numbering. 259

Suppress. 260

Keep Together. 261

Footnotes and endnotes. 263

Footnotes. 263

Endnotes. 266

Margins and tabs. 267

Margins. 267

Tabs. 268

Kerning. 269

Looking further . . . 271

Summary. 272

8: Columns and Tables. 273

Columns. 273

More flexibility in columns. 275

Column breaks. 276

Parallel columns. 277

Column borders. 278

Column fills. 278

Tables. 280

Selecting cells. 281

Changing cell size. 282

Adding or deleting columns and rows. 283

Moving data within a table. 283

Formatting a table. 283

Table borders. 286

Other formatting options. 287

Math in a table. 287

Updating calculations. 289

More complex calculations. 289

Moving from a table to text and back. 289

Protecting data. 291

Designing visually appealing and effective tables. 291

Looking further . . . 294

Summary. 295

9: Advanced Formatting. 297

Style sheets. 297

Creating a style. 299

Applying a style. 302

Editing a style. 302

Updating a style. 304

Linking styles. 305

Basing one style on another. 307

Editing the Document Style. 308

Assigning keyboard equivalents. 309

Using the Librarian for styles. 310

SpeedStyles. 312

Text Boxes. 313

Creating a text box. 314

Adding a frame. 315

Text box options. 316

Text box style. 317

Using text boxes. 317

Drop Caps. 317

Pull quotes. 319

Hyphenation. 320

Hyphenation zone. 321

Outlining. 324

Basic outlining. 324

Enhanced Outlining. 326

Paragraph numbering. 329

Subtitles. 330

Make It Fit. 331

Looking further . . . 332

Summary. 332

10: Data Management and Lists. 335

Lists. 336

Creating an Index. 337

Creating an Index with a Concordance. 339

Formatting an Index. 341

Indexes with two levels of entries. 343

Table of Contents. 345

Using the List dialog for a Table of Contents. 346

Tables of Authorities. 349

Editing a Table of Authorities. 352

Other lists. 353

Updating lists. 355

Listing tables. 356

Custom lists. 359

Cross-referencing. 359

Sorting. 362

Sorting by alternate fields. 365

Using multiple sort levels. 366

Sorting in groups. 367

Sorting by imbedded words. 369

Sorting a table. 370

Other considerations in sorting. 371

Filter. 371

Filter criteria operators. 373

Sorting and filtering at the same time. 375

Summary. 375

11: Document Linking: Merge, and Publish & Subscribe. 377

Merge. 377

The two parts. 378

The Form File. 378

The Data File. 380

Merging the two parts. 383

Other merge codes. 385

Before starting to create a Data File. 387

Power Merge. 387

Defining Field Names. 388

Messages. 392

Next Record. 394

Form File. 394

Quit. 395

Run Macro. 395

Data File. 395

Transfer. 396

Merge with database files. 396

Envelopes. 396

Publish & Subscribe. 397

Publishing data. 398

Subscribing to data. 399

Characteristics of an edition in a subscribing file. 401

Updating data. 401

Publisher Options. 402

Subscriber Options. 403

Working with graphics. 404

Working between different programs. 404

Amazing connectivity. 406

Handling an edition. 406

Summary. 407

12: Customization. 409

Preferences. 410

Environment. 410

Screen colors. 411

Format Menu. 412

Options Menu. 414

Windows Menu. 417

Graphics Menu. 419

Units Menu. 421

Language menu. 421

Keyboard. 422

Keystrokes for other program features. 426

Alternate keyboards. 428

Libraries. 428

Locating a Common Library. 429

Files. 432

Date/Time. 435

Font. 435

Word Services. 436

Other buttons in Preferences. 436

Templates. 436

Creating a Template. 437

Using Templates. 438

Templates that affect all new documents. 439

Button Bar customization. 439

Changing languages. 443

Use Inline. 444

Summary. 444

13: Macros and AppleScript. 447

Macros. 448

Recording a macro. 448

Playing back a macro. 451

Macros that come with WordPerfect. 452

Editing a macro. 453

A couple of useful macros. 455

Letterswitch. 455

Cap It. 456

Page X of Y. 457

Automatic paragraph numbering. 459

Handling macros. 460

Copying, naming and deleting macros. 461

Macro file formats. 462

Scripting. 463

Macros with pauses for user input. 465

Macro help. 470

Graphics macros. 471

Managing data. 471

Managing text with macros. 473

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Format: PDF electronic document
Number of pages: 710

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Open Library: OL25672681M
Internet Archive: TeachYourselfWordPerfectMac2.1

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Teach Yourself WordPerfect Mac

Second Edition

by John Rethorst