Re: Word Perfect for GS -- Who Sells it...?

[rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Richard Der)]

land@smart.net (E.G. Land) wrote:
> Up until recently I had an XT and used
> QA Write to do my word processing. This product is light years
> ahead of AW. I was led to believe AW was a similar high-powered
> wp. It isn't. Adequate for some, perhaps, but not for me.
 
Since I was one of those who recommended AW, I'll try to
help solve your problems with it. I am still convinced that it
IS a high-powered WP and that it is adequate for anything.
 
People have put together textbook length works on it.
 
 
> Look, I spent an hour fooling around with margins, tabs, and
> headers.
 
Ok, unlike others, I will try to find solutions to your problems.
 
 
> The margins feature covered my document with a billion little
> errors. It would also seemingly change margins on its own accord,
> or not execute them immediately.
 
There is a reason that the margins don't seem to change: AW is not
a WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet (WYSIWYG) word processor. The philosophy
behind it is "speed rather than graphics".
 
To edit a margin, type OpenApple-O to bring up the options menu.
Type RM (right margin), enter the right margin (example 1.0).
Type LM for left margin. CN for centered, etc. At this point,
AW will put some control characters into the document. When you
press the Escape key to exit from the options menu, these codes
will seem to dissappear. To see them, you have to type OpenApple-Z
(for zoom). Now when you do this, you'll see all kinds of control
characters - this DOES NOT mean that your document has errors,
just margin change commands and the like. Type OpenApple-Z again
to return to plain text view.
 
Next, you may notice little "^" symbols when you add underline,
italics, sub/superscripts, and the like from the options menu.
This is normal and are NOT errors. If you place the cursor on
these symbols, there's a message on the bottom of the screen to
tell you what they are (for example, UNDERLINE BEGIN). These
style codes do not disappear when you zoom out. Interestingly,
WordPerfect for DOS used these too.
 
 
>  Headers were real freaky... Still haven't figured out how to get
>  visible page numbers on each page of my document while I'm working
>  on it. And why isn't my header appearing on each page?
 
 
Again, AW isn't a WYSIWYG word processor. Now if you set a header,
it will print on every page. It will also show up when you "Print to
Screen". But you won't see it in edit mode. This is for sake of
simplicity and speed.
 
As for page numbers, I think the command sequence is:
 
1) set a footer
2) in the footer, enter CN (centered) from the options menu
3) enter PN from the options menu (page number)
 
 
>  I'm sure there's logical answers for the above, but I'm not
>  finding them!
 
I hope you will find some of them in the paragraphs above.
 
BTW, this is all from memory. I haven't used AppleWorks for years
(using AWGS exclusively instead). But the program is so intuitive
to me that a couple of weeks ago, when I had to work on a non-GS
Apple with AW Classic, it all came back to me.
 
It could be that you are similarly learned in QA Write and it is
difficult to unlearn one WP and learn another.
 
AW has a lot of features and once you learn how to access them,
it becomes evident that it is a very powerful program. It is even
more than just a WP. You could enter facts, dates, info in the
data base module and merge them instantly into the WP, for example.


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