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Lotus SmartSuite Word Pro Tips

LAST UPDATED: Thursday, 08 November 2007 18:18:10 -0600

Check it now    New Folder    One Word at a time    Set the Attributes

Print this now    USING WORD PROS CYCLE THROUGH FEATURE

SPECIAL QUOTATION MARKS IN WORD PRO

PASTING CHARTS INTO WORD PRO DOCUMENTS

Backup files    CUTTING TEXT    MOVING AROUND IN WORD PRO

MOVING AROUND IN WORD PRO    FINDING PARAGRAPH MARKS IN WORD PRO

DRAG AND DROP FROM FREELANCE GRAPHICS TO WORD PRO

CHANGING THE WORD PRO SPELLING CHECKER COLORS

CHANGING LINE SPACING IN WORD PRO

CHECKING YOUR PRINTERS MARGINS    A QUICK SPELLING CHECK IN WORD PRO

USING DRAG AND DROP IN WORD PRO

CREATING AND DESTROYING HARD PAGE BREAKS IN WORD PRO

WORD PRO PAGE FORMAT    WORKING WITH EDIT MARKING IN WORD PRO

USING FAST FORMAT IN WORD PRO    PRINT WHAT YOU NEED IN WORD PRO

SETTING HEADER PROPERTIES IN WORD PRO

SETTING THE WORD PRO GRAMMAR CHECKER

WORKING WITH DROP CAPS IN WORD PRO

CYCLING THROUGH THE WORD PRO FONTS

CLIPART IN WORD PRO DOCUMENTS    SELECTING A PARAGRAPH IN WORD PRO

WATCHING YOUR PAGE LAYOUT IN WORD PRO

QUICK-PRINTING WORD PRO DOCUMENTS    SHOW THE ENTIRE PATH IN WORD PRO

USING SHORT FILES IN WORD PRO    USING KEY STROKES IN A SMARTSUITE DIALOG BOX

VIEWING FILES IN WORD PRO

CHECK IT NOW

Word Pro can tell you when a word is misspelled (or at least when it thinks a word is misspelled). To get the message, run Word Pro and choose View, Show/Hide, Misspelled Words. This is a toggles--if check mark appears to the left of the Misspelled Word command, it's active. If there is no check mark, the command is inactive.

Once you've activated the Misspelled Word command, Word Pro highlights any word that isn't in its dictionary. This gives you the opportunity to correct misspellings as you work.

MAKE ME A NEW FOLDER

When you're using Word Pro, sometimes you may choose File, Save As and then wish you had a new folder in which to place the file. Wish no longer--you can quite easily create a new folder using the Word Pro Save As dialog box. And since the Save As dialog box is the same in all the SmartSuite programs, you can create a new folder for your 1-2-3, Freelance Graphics, and other SmartSuite files.

Let's look at how to use this feature. Run Word Pro and open a blank document. Type a few characters, then choose File, Save As. When the Save As dialog box opens, click the Create New Folder icon (it's the one that looks like a small folder--the rightmost button). With the New Folder dialog box open, type the name for your new folder and click OK to close the dialog box and create your folder. The new folder now appears in the file list.

If you want to save the current file in the new folder, double-click the folder to open it. Make sure your file name is correct, then click Save to close the Save As dialog box and save your file.  

ONE WORD AT A TIME  

"It's easy to get in the habit of just using the left and right arrow keys to move around in a Word Pro sentence. This works, but tends to be a little slow when you want to move through a large number of words.

An easier way to get around in a sentence is to hold down the Shift key while you press the right or left arrow keys. This way, you move through a sentence one word at a time rather than one letter at a time."

SET THE ATTRIBUTES

"In a recent SmartSuite tip, you explained how to set a page number in a Word Pro header. I have also found it helpful to note that after placing the cursor in the header, you should first set whatever text properties you want the page number to use before creating the actual page number."

Run Word Pro and open a blank document. The easiest way to insert a page number into the Word Pro header is to click the header, then click the Insert Page Number button in the Word Pro toolbar (its icon is a page with a purple "1" in the bottom right corner).

You first click in the header and press Alt-Enter to open the Properties dialog box. There you set the attributes you would like to use for page numbering. When finished, click the X in the upper right corner to dismiss the dialog box.

Now that you have set the attributes, click Insert Page Number to insert the page number.  

PRINT THIS NOW

"I often need to work with SmartSuite files using Windows Explorer. I've discovered that I can save a lot of time by printing my SmartSuite files directly from Explorer. I thought you might like to suggest this to other readers."

To see how this prints files from Windows Explorer, run Explorer and locate one of your Word Pro document files. Click the file to select it, then choose File, Print. Word Pro opens, prints the document, and closes.

USING WORD PRO'S CYCLE THROUGH FEATURE

Here is a Word Pro question

"I would really like to use the tip you ran in January about cycling through the fonts. However, when I follow the instructions, I find the Cycle Through These Fonts list boxes blank. How do I get the specific font I desire into the Cycle 1 list box?"

Let's run through the procedure. Choose File, User Setup, CycleKey Setup. When the CycleKey Setup dialog box opens, select the radio button labeled Font. Now select the Cycle Through These Fonts radio button.

Click the arrow at the right side of the Cycle 1 list box to expand the list. It should include all the fonts installed on your system. Select one of the fonts and then expand the Cycle 2 list to select another font. Continue until you have selected all the fonts you want.

Click OK to close the dialog box and save your selections.

SPECIAL QUOTATION MARKS IN WORD PRO

"I'm working on a special document in Word Pro and I need to make the quotation marks much larger than the text. When I set the quotation marks to a larger size, they tend to move up above the text. Do you have any suggestions?"

You could try using a different font. We used the quotation marks from Monotype Sorts very effectively. We found that using the Windows 9X Character Map was the easiest approach to adding symbols. To open Character Map, click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Character Map (in Windows 98). When Character Map opens, click the arrow at the right side of the Font list box and select Monotype Sorts from the list. In the third row near the right side of Character Map, you will see the open and close quotation marks. Double-click the open quotes and click Copy. Now move to your Word Pro document and press Ctrl-V to paste the symbol in some out-of-the-way spot. Go back to Character Map and click the Characters To Copy entry box. Delete the current entry and double-click the close quotes symbol. Click Copy, then go to your Word Pro document and press Ctrl-V.

With both symbols in place, you can now copy and paste them into the necessary locations. When you finish placing all your quotation marks, delete the originals.

PASTING CHARTS INTO WORD PRO DOCUMENTS

"I would like to paste a 1-2-3 chart into a Word Pro document. The problem is that I only need the chart, not the entire worksheet. When I open the worksheet containing the chart, select it , then choose Edit, Copy, I end up pasting the entire worksheet, chart and all, into Word Pro. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?"

What you are apparently doing is selecting the worksheet, not the chart. Open your worksheet and click once inside the chart. Now choose Edit, Copy, then move to Word Pro and choose Edit, Paste. This should paste in your chart only.

You can also right-click the chart and choose Copy in 1-2-3, then move to Word Pro and press Ctrl-V to paste in the chart.

BE SAFE

"I often compose documents in Word Pro that we can't afford to lose. Is there an automatic save feature in Word Pro? If so, how do I activate it?"

There is such a feature in Word Pro. To use it, run Word Pro and choose File, User Setup, Word Pro Preferences. When the Word Pro Preferences dialog box opens, click the General tab (if necessary). Now select the check box labeled "Automatically time save every" and enter the number of minutes you want between saves.

Since your documents are very important to you, you may want to select the check box labeled "Auto back up documents (*.BAK)"--this tells Word Pro it should always create backup files with the BAK extension.

After you make all your selections, click OK to close the dialog box and record your settings.

For very important documents, we suggest you also save them to a floppy disk at least at the end of every workday. One easy way to do this is to use Windows Explorer to copy the files to drive A:. Just locate your data folder and drag the files' icons to drive A:.

Also check out the page HOW DO I DO A BACKUP.

CUTTING TEXT

"When you need to place selected Word Pro text into the Windows Clipboard for later use, you can select the text and choose Edit, Copy to copy the text to the Clipboard. You can also choose Edit, Cut to cut the text and send it to the Clipboard.

"Many people know you can also use Ctrl-C to copy text and Ctrl-X to cut it. What most people don't know is that you can press Shift-Delete to cut text and send it to the Clipboard. And if you want to copy text to the Clipboard, you can press Ctrl-Insert."

MOVING AROUND IN WORD PRO

"I often work with very long documents. Formerly, if I needed to get to page 28, I pressed Page Down until I got there. After months of doing things this way, I decided to see if there was an easier way. As I should have known, there was. All you have to do is press Ctrl-G. This opens the Go To dialog box. You can type in the page you want or select it from the list."

FINDING PARAGRAPH MARKS IN WORD PRO

You can use Find & Replace to locate paragraphs even if you don't have Word Pro set to display paragraph marks. To see how this works, run Word Pro and load a document that contains a few paragraphs. Now press Ctrl-F to open the Find & Replace toolbar. In the Find entry box, type

^r (caret)r

and click Find. Word Pro navigates to the first paragraph mark after the current cursor position. Each time you click Find, Word Pro moves to the next paragraph mark.

DRAG AND DROP FROM FREELANCE GRAPHICS TO WORD PRO

"I use Freelance Graphics to generate a lot of graphics that I then use in Word Pro. I have been doing a simple copy and paste. I would like to drag and drop pictures from Freelance Graphics to Word Pro, but I have never been successful at doing so. Does drag and drop work between Freelance Graphics and Word Pro?"

Drag and drop certainly should work between Freelance Graphics and Word Pro. If you run Freelance Graphics and insert a ClipArt picture, you can then open a blank Word Pro document and drag the picture to it from the Freelance Graphics slide. Here's how.

With both programs open (Freelance Graphics and Word Pro), right-click the Windows taskbar and choose Tile Windows Horizontally. Freelance Graphics and Word Pro now appear, one above the other, on your screen. You can drag the picture from Freelance Graphics to Word Pro using the mouse.

CHANGING THE WORD PRO SPELLING CHECKER COLORS

"I like to use the automatic spelling checker feature in Word Pro, but I really hate that awful cyan Word Pro uses by default. You can change the color quite easily. Run Word Pro and press Ctrl-F2 to open the spelling checker. In the Spell Check toolbar, click Options. When the Spell Check Options dialog box opens, click the arrow at the right side of the Color For Unrecognized Words list box and select a new color. I chose light yellow."

CHANGING LINE SPACING IN WORD PRO

"I have found that an easy way to make a busy document look less crowded is to change the line spacing slightly. I don't mean change it by a whole line or even half a line--just a small amount. The extra line spacing isn't noticeable, but the overall effect makes the document look cleaner.

"To change the line spacing in an existing Word Pro document, go to the top of the document and press Ctrl-Shift-End to select all the text. Then press Alt-Enter to open the Text Properties dialog box. When the dialog box opens, click the Alignment tab (second from the left). Click the arrow at the right side of the Line Spacing list box and choose Custom.

When the Spacing Custom dialog box opens, I click the arrow at the right side of the Spacing Units list box and select Points (Pts) because I find it easier to visualize what I'm doing in points. Next, move up to the Custom Spacing spin box and set the spacing to one or two points more than the current setting. Click OK to close the dialog box and save the new spacing selection. To close the Properties box, click the Close box (the X in the upper right corner)."

CHECKING YOUR PRINTER'S MARGINS

"I know you can't print at the very edge of the paper, but is there any way to find out (without printing a page) just what the minimum margins are? I need to print a long document in Word Pro, and I'd like to set the margins as close to the edge as I can without messing up the page."

Yes, there is a way. Click Start, Settings, Printers. When the Printers window opens, right-click your printer's icon and choose Properties. When the dialog box opens, click the Paper tab. This is what we have with a HP LaserJet--your printer may differ. What you need to locate is the page that allows you to set your printer's margins.

Once you figure out where to set your margins, set them all to zero. The margins set themselves to the minimum margin allowed. In the case of the HP LaserJet we use, the minimum is .25 inches top, bottom, right, and left.

Once you know what the minimums are, set Word Pro to a slightly larger margin on each side of the paper.

A QUICK SPELLING CHECK IN WORD PRO

"At times, I need to check the spelling of a single word in a Word Pro document. I have discovered a way to do this quite easily--just double-click the word to select it, then press Ctrl-F2. This opens the standard spelling check toolbar. If the word is misspelled, Word Pro offers a choice of replacement spellings. You'll also get a dialog box asking if you want to check the rest of the document. Just click No, and the dialog box disappears, along with the spelling check toolbar."

USING DRAG AND DROP IN WORD PRO

"I feel sure that you must have discussed how to use drag and drop in Word Pro. Would you please cover this topic again? I am a new user and am having trouble understanding just what drag and drop can do for me."

Drag and drop refers to selecting some text and then using the mouse to drag that text to a new location. When you get to the new location, you release the mouse button to drop the text. To drag text to another location, simply select the text you want to move. When you move the mouse over the selected text, the cursor turns to a small hand icon. Hold the mouse button down and drag the selected text to its new location. Just release the mouse button when you get to the new location.

You can also copy text to a new location this way. Just hold down the Ctrl key while you drag the selected text. This leaves your original text intact, and you have a copy of it at the new location.

CREATING AND DESTROYING HARD PAGE BREAKS IN WORD PRO

"I know how to create hard page breaks (put the cursor where you want the page break and press Ctrl-Enter). My problem is, how do I get rid of a hard page break?"

This is a question we see frequently because it isn't easy to see why you can't delete the hard page break by selecting it and pressing Delete. What you do is place the cursor after the last word before the page break and press Delete.

WORD PRO PAGE FORMAT

"Is it possible to change the default on a Word Pro page format so it won't always start in landscape mode? Every time I start up Word Pro and use one of the preformatted templates (Fax2, Memo2, and so on) the program starts in landscape mode. It drives me crazy! I'd appreciate any help."

Portrait mode is the usual default, and the SmartSuite programs use the default printer settings. To change your printer default, click Start, Settings, Printers. Now right-click your printer icon and choose Properties. When the Properties dialog box opens, click the Paper tab (this name may vary depending on your specific printer). Select Portrait and click OK to close the dialog box and save your new setting.

Another possibility is that you've inadvertently changed the individual templates. To check this, run Word Pro and load one of the problem templates. Now choose File, Document Properties, Page. If necessary, click the Size And Margin tab (the first tab on the left) and click the Portrait preview under Orientation. Close the Properties dialog box (click the X in the  upper right corner), then choose File, Save As. When the Save As dialog box opens, go to \lotus\smasters\Word Pro\lotus\. Click the arrow at the right side of the Save As Type list box and select Lotus Word Pro SmartMaster (*.MWP). Type the file name in the File Name entry box and click Save.

WORKING WITH EDIT MARKING IN WORD PRO

"I used Markup Edits on several of my Word Pro documents, thinking this would make editing easier. Instead, it created a mess. Now I can't find a way to get rid of the editing markup. How do I get my documents back to normal?"

To provide some background for other readers, let's go through all the steps required to mark up your edits. Run Word Pro and open a document you don't need to preserve. If you don't have a document you can afford to delete, make a copy of an existing document and use that. Now choose Edit, Markup Edits. Make some changes in your document--delete a few words, add a few words, and so forth. Your newly added words appear in blue italics and your deletions appear in strikethrough red. Once you have marked your edits, you must either accept or reject them. Choose Edit, Review Marked Edits. When the Review toolbar opens at the top of your screen, you can click Reject All Edits to open the Reject All Edits dialog box. Select (as an example) the radio button labeled "Reject all edits in entire document" and click OK. This gets you back to where you started. You could also click Accept All Edits to accept all the edits in your document. This clears all the editing marks.

Since you probably don't want to reject all the edits, you can click Next Edit. This takes you to the first edit. You can click either Accept or Reject. Note: This button label reflects the nature of the edit. If you insert a word, the button label appears as Accept Insertion. For a deletion, the label reads Accept Deletion.

USING FAST FORMAT IN WORD PRO

"Most of the time, I use only a few formats over and over in all my documents. I have found the Fast Format feature extremely helpful. All you have to do is select a word of the format you want to copy and then press Ctrl-T. The mouse cursor turns to a paintbrush icon that you can drag over any text to apply the selected format."

To try this out, open a blank Word Pro document and enter a word or two using the default font (Times New Roman or whatever). Now press Enter a few times and click the Fonts list box (it's at the bottom left of the Word Pro window and displays the current font). Select Arial and type a few more words. (If your default font is Arial, choose a different font). Now select one of the first words you entered and press Ctrl-T. Next, drag the mouse cursor over the second set of words. Its font changes to the default.

To stop using Fast Format, press the Esc key.

PRINT WHAT YOU NEED IN WORD PRO

"When you have a long document, and need to print only a division rather than the whole thing, you can select the Current Division button in the Print dialog box. Of course, you can print just a single page (the current page) if you select the Current Page radio button. I have found all the print options useful. There is no point in printing many pages when you only need a few."

You're right. The Print dialog box offers a number of options. To check them out, run Word Pro and choose File, Print. When the Print dialog box opens, you'll see radio buttons to select all the pages, the current page, a range of pages, the current division, and selected pages.

To choose some pages for printing, select the Selected Pages Only radio button and click Select Pages. When the Select Pages dialog box opens, select the radio button List Of Pages. Now enter the pages you want to print--for example, you might enter 1, 5, 8. After you enter your list, click OK to close the dialog box and continue.

Back in the Print dialog box, click Print to begin printing and close the dialog box.

SETTING HEADER PROPERTIES IN WORD PRO

"I am a new Word Pro user. I need to create some documents for a special report, and I would like to add a light yellow background (we use a color laser printer) to the header without adding it to the rest of the document. Is there a way to do this in Word Pro?"

Yes--right-click in the Header area and choose Header Properties. When the Properties dialog box opens, click the Color, Pattern, And Line Style tab. Now click the arrow at the right side of the Background Color tab and select the desired shade of yellow. The header area color will not affect the body of the document.

After you make your selection, click the X in the upper right corner of the Properties dialog box to close it.

SETTING THE WORD PRO GRAMMAR CHECKER

"I started using Word Pro just a few weeks ago. I like the program, but I find the grammar checker far too strict for informal writing. I would like to use the grammar checker, so I would like to know if there is some way to make it more appropriate for writing personal letters and so forth."

You can customize the grammar checker. Open Word Pro and choose Edit, Check Grammar. When the Grammar Check toolbar opens, click Options. In the Grammar Options dialog box, click the Rules tab. Now click the arrow at the right side of the Formality list box and choose Informal from the list. Click OK to close the dialog box and save your selection. Click Done to close the Grammar Check toolbar.

Try your new setting for a while and see if it works for you. If not, you can customize the settings to suit yourself. Just open the Check Grammar toolbar as described above, and click the Grammatical Style tab. Select from the options in the three list boxes: Flag Consecutive Prepositional Phrases, Flag Consecutive Nouns, and Flag Split Infinitives.

You can also use the two spin boxes to tell Word Pro the maximum number of words you can use in a sentence before it gets tagged as too long, and how many spaces you want between sentences. At the bottom of the dialog box, use spin boxes to tell Word Pro how to deal with identical sentence openings. If this still doesn't handle everything you need, click the Rules tab and select or deselect individual grammatical rules.

After you make your selections, click OK to close the dialog box and save all your new selections. Back in the Check Grammar toolbar, click Done.

WORKING WITH DROP CAPS IN WORD PRO

"This is probably a strange request, but I need to use drop caps with a symbol. Is this possible in Word Pro?"

Symbols are fonts, so you can apply Drop Caps to them. To see how this works in Word Pro, run the program and choose Text, Insert Other, Symbol. When the Insert Symbol dialog box opens, select a symbol and click Insert. Now click Done to close the dialog box.

Select your newly inserted symbol and choose Create, Drop Cap. When the Drop Cap dialog box opens, select the radio button that best represents what you need and click OK to apply your selection and close the dialog box.

CYCLING THROUGH THE WORD PRO FONTS

"I use about three fonts more than 90 percent of the time. So I entered these three fonts into the Font CycleKey setup to keep them readily available.

"To enter your font selections, run Word Pro and choose File, User Setup, CycleKey Setup. When the CycleKey Setup dialog box opens, select the Font radio button. Now select the Cycle Through These Fonts radio button and click the arrow at the right side of the Cycle 1 list box. Select the font you want to use from the list.

"Open the Cycle 2 list box and choose another font. Continue this procedure until you have selected all the fonts you want to use. Click OK to close the dialog box and save your font selections.

"Pressing the F3 key will now cycle you through your list of fonts. I have found this an extremely quick way to make a font change in Word Pro."

CLIPART IN WORD PRO DOCUMENTS

"I have SmartSuite 97 and I would like to use some ClipArt in Word Pro. However, I don't see a way to insert ClipArt. Could you give me a pointer in the right direction?"

Since you have the entire suite, you should try this: Open a blank document in Word Pro and choose Create, Object. When the Create Object dialog box opens, select the Create A New Object radio button and click OK to close the dialog box. Now select Lotus Freelance 97 and click OK. This will open Freelance Graphics. Click Clip Art and select a picture. Next, choose File, Exit, Return To Filename, (where Filename is the name of your Word Pro file). The ClipArt picture will appear in your Word Pro document.

SELECTING A PARAGRAPH IN WORD PRO

"Before I started my present job, I used Microsoft Word. In Word, you could select an entire paragraph by simply clicking in the paragraph three times. This doesn't work in Word Pro, but is there some other combination I'm missing?"

To select an entire paragraph in Word Pro, hold down Ctrl and double-click in the paragraph. To select a sentence, hold down Ctrl and click once in the sentence.

You can also press F11 to select a sentence and F12 to select a paragraph.

You have probably also noticed that pressing Ctrl-A doesn't select the entire Word Pro document. To do so, right-click in the document and choose Select, Entire Document.

WATCHING YOUR PAGE LAYOUT IN WORD PRO

How you can view your document for editing and see how the page layout looks at the same time.

To see how this works, run Word Pro and open a document. Now choose  View, Special Views. When the Special Views dialog box opens, select the PageWalker radio button. Click OK to close the dialog box and record your new settings. Your document will now appear for editing on the left side of the screen, and you can keep track of your page layouts by viewing the small pages at the right of the screen.

To get back to the default view, choose View, Clear All Splits.

QUICK-PRINTING WORD PRO DOCUMENTS

"My system is on a network and I have three printers to choose from when I print Word Pro documents. This wouldn't be a problem except that another user often changes my default printer. To solve the problem, I added a shortcut to the printer I prefer to use. Now I simply drag any document I want to print to the printer shortcut icon."

This is a good solution. To make it even more convenient, you could put the printer shortcut into your Word Pro data folder. This would make dragging files into it even easier.

To do this, run Windows Explorer and go to c:\lotus\work\wordpro (the default installation folder). Now click Start, Settings, Printers. When the Printers window opens, drag your printer's icon to the c:\lotus\work\wordpro folder. You will be asked if you want to create a shortcut. Click Yes to continue.

You can now close the Printers window. In Explorer, drag a short Word Pro file to the printer icon and release the mouse button. The document will print with no further interaction.

SHOW THE ENTIRE PATH IN WORD PRO

"I find it confusing to see only the current folder in a Word Pro file name. Most often, I would like to know the full path and name. Is there a way to get Word Pro to default to displaying the full path?"

If you don't see the full path to a loaded file in your Word Pro status bar, click the status bar a little to the right of center. This will open a list from which you can select your document. From this point on, Word Pro will display in this location the full path, minus the file name, which appears in the title bar.

USING SHORT FILES IN WORD PRO

"Like many Word Pro users, I primarily generate small files, such as memos and short reports. A coworker told me about a way to make Word Pro create smaller files. To do this, run Word Pro and choose File, User Setup, Word Pro Preferences. When the dialog box opens, click the General tab and then click the check mark at the right side of the Disable list box. When the list opens, deselect Small File Format. Now click OK to close the dialog box."

To check this out, we created a file that contained only the word Test and saved it as test1.lwp. Then we deselected Small File Format and created a new file containing the word test. We saved the new file as test2.lwp. We then checked the file sizes. The first file was 13.6KB and the second was 8.5KB.

USING KEY STROKES IN A SMARTSUITE DIALOG BOX

If you prefer, you can work with SmartSuite dialog boxes without using the mouse. Suppose you're using Word Pro, and you decide to change some text. You could press Alt-Enter to open the Properties dialog box. The dialog box should open at  Font, Attribute, And Color. If it doesn't, just press the right and left arrows on your keyboard to select the correct tab.

Now press the Tab key once. This will get you into the Font Name list. You can use your keyboard's up and down arrows to scroll through the list. When you find what you want, press Enter.

To set the font size, press Tab to get to the Size list and use the arrow keys to choose a size. Press Enter to accept your choice and press Tab to get to the Attributes list. Make a selection with the arrow keys again.

When you finish making all your selections, press Alt-F4 to close the dialog box.

VIEWING FILES IN WORD PRO

"I have a number of files in my Word Pro document folder that I'd like to leave there. The problem is that when I choose File, Open, I see the entire contents of the folder. I realize I can change that for a given session, but what I would like to do is change the default to LWP. Is this possible?" Yes, you can change the default. Run Word Pro and choose File, User Setup, Word Pro Preferences. When the Word Pro Preferences dialog box opens, click the Default Files tab. Now, click in the Default File Open Types entry box and type

*.LWP

Click OK to close the dialog box, then choose File, Exit to close Word Pro. The next time you run Word Pro, you should see only LWP files in the Open dialog box.

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