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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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Teach Yourself WordPerfect Mac
Second Edition
Published
2015
by
John Rethorst
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Written in English.
Table of Contents
| 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 | |
| More on variables | 475 | |
| Large-scale macros | 479 | |
| AppleScript | 482 | |
| Some sample scripts | 482 | |
| Conditional statements and dialog boxes | 484 | |
| More complex scripts | 485 | |
| Saving a script as a separate program | 486 | |
| AppleScript control of WordPerfect macros | 488 | |
| Using AppleScript to get information from a database | 488 | |
| AppleScript, Prefab Player and Menu Events | 489 | |
| WP’s AppleScript Dictionary | 489 | |
| Looking further . . . | 489 | |
| Summary | 490 | |
| 14: Equations | 491 | |
| The tools | 492 | |
| Creating an equation | 494 | |
| Other symbols | 498 | |
| Navigating in levels | 500 | |
| Formatting an equation | 501 | |
| Moving elements | 501 | |
| Aligning elements | 502 | |
| Equations in documents | 504 | |
| Equation frames | 505 | |
| Options | 505 | |
| Looking further . . . | 506 | |
| Summary | 507 | |
| 15: Typesetting and Page Design | 509 | |
| Tips on type | 510 | |
| Type formats | 510 | |
| Type styles | 511 | |
| Typeface and personality | 512 | |
| Attributes | 517 | |
| Page design | 518 | |
| Putting a page together | 519 | |
| Reports | 520 | |
| Newsletters | 523 | |
| Magazines | 526 | |
| Editorial pages | 527 | |
| Advertising | 532 | |
| Undefined | 536 | |
| Spreads | 538 | |
| Summary | 539 | |
| 16: Advanced Features | 541 | |
| QuickTime | 541 | |
| Inserting a movie | 541 | |
| Playing a movie | 543 | |
| Movie Settings | 544 | |
| Working with a movie as a document element | 545 | |
| Bookmarks | 546 | |
| Hyperlinks | 547 | |
| Envelopes | 549 | |
| Speech | 550 | |
| Summary | 551 | |
| 17: Safety and Security | 553 | |
| Viruses | 553 | |
| Virus prevention and eradication programs | 555 | |
| Maintaining current protection | 559 | |
| Disk Doctors | 560 | |
| More extensive diagnostic programs | 563 | |
| File Recovery | 565 | |
| Automatic backup programs | 565 | |
| Free Backup | 566 | |
| General advice | 571 | |
| Summary | 572 | |
| 18: The Virtuoso Macintosh | 573 | |
| Apple Menu | 574 | |
| Scientific Calculator | 574 | |
| Clipboard | 576 | |
| Convert | 576 | |
| Finances | 577 | |
| The Dvorak Keyboard | 578 | |
| Marienbad | 581 | |
| QuickFile | 582 | |
| Set Screen Colors | 582 | |
| Super Ruler | 583 | |
| Control Panels | 583 | |
| ApplWindows | 583 | |
| Flash-It | 585 | |
| Keys! | 586 | |
| MacLinkPlus Setup | 587 | |
| Smart Scroll | 588 | |
| Adobe Type Manager (ATM) | 589 | |
| SmoothType | 591 | |
| Script Menu | 592 | |
| QuickFind | 592 | |
| Recent | 593 | |
| Workspaces | 594 | |
| Dictionary and Thesaurus | 595 | |
| Citations | 595 | |
| DocCompare | 596 | |
| Filter | 597 | |
| Lupe | 597 | |
| MetaMacro | 597 | |
| Mouse | 598 | |
| Open URL | 599 | |
| Regex Search | 599 | |
| UltraClip | 600 | |
| UltraSearch | 601 | |
| WP QuickHelp | 601 | |
| Extensions | 602 | |
| OtherMenu | 603 | |
| Folder Actions Plus | 603 | |
| Disinfectant INIT | 603 | |
| Menu Events | 603 | |
| Prefab Player | 604 | |
| Scripting Additions | 604 | |
| GTQ Library | 604 | |
| Jon’s Additions | 605 | |
| HipTools | 605 | |
| Find Document | 605 | |
| Regular Expressions | 605 | |
| Dialog Director | 606 | |
| Akua Sweets | 606 | |
| OSX Plugins | 606 | |
| Spotlight | 606 | |
| Quick Look | 607 | |
| Symbolic Linker | 608 | |
| Looking further . . . | 608 | |
| Summary | 608 | |
| Glossary | 611 | |
| Command Reference | 649 | |
| Index | 689 |
The Physical Object
Format |
PDF electronic document |
Number of pages |
710 |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL25672681M |
Internet Archive |
TeachYourselfWordPerfectMac2.1 |
| April 30, 2015 | Edited by John Rethorst | Edited without comment. |
| April 30, 2015 | Edited by John Rethorst | Edited without comment. |
| April 30, 2015 | Created by John Rethorst | Added new book. |