WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows for Dummies Book

Introduction

What Goes On in This Book

How to Use This Book

Who Am Us, Anyway?

What You're Not Supposed to Read

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Introducing WordPerfect for Windows

Part II: Prettying Up Your Text

Part III: Things You Can Do with Documents

Part IV: Help Me, Rhonda!

Part V: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Introducing WordPerfect for Windows

Chapter 1: WordPerfect Basics

Starting WordPerfect

Honey, I Shrunk the Program!

The WordPerfect Window

What's on the Status Bar?

Typing Something

Waxing Eloquent

What's in a Name?

Saving your document

Filename rules

Save it again, Sam

Getting Some Help

Editing Another File

Printing Your Document

Leaving WordPerfect

Chapter 2: Using the Mouse and Keyboard

To Mouse or Not to Mouse

Mouse Anatomy and Behavior Basics

Nonmouse mice

Configuring your mouse

Mouse skills

Choosing Commands from Menus

Clicking on the menu bar

Choosing a command

Using Dialog Boxes

Those wacky dialog thingies

Our favorite buttons

Using QuickMenus for Even More Ways to Choose Commands

Fooling with the Toolbar

Power Lunch at the Power Bar

Using the Ruler Bar

Using the Keyboard

Know your keys

Pressing and releasing keys

Knowing when to press Enter

The story of Tab and the spacebar

Choosing commands by using keys

Undoing Mistakes

Help, Help-Help, and More Help

Help

Help-Help

More help and Coaches

Context-Sensitive Help

Chapter 3: Cruising the Document

Two -- Count 'Em, Two -- Ways

Mousing Around

Moving nearby

Moving to the far reaches of the document

Using the Keyboard, Staying Close to Home

Using the arrow keys

Using Ctrl with the arrow keys

Moving farther and faster

Go To Where?

Top of the page to you!

Getting unlost

Chapter 4: Trashing Your Text

Insert and Typeover Modes

Dealing with One Character at a Time: Backspace and Delete

Deleting Secret Codes

Deleting Blocks of Text

Undeleting

Undoing versus Undeleting

Chapter 5: Searching for Sanity

Finding What's Lost

The usual search for "sanity"

Changing the way you search

Searching for sanity and finding insanity

Getting picky about what you find

Finding Doctor Livingst[*]

Looking for Mr. Goodchar

Looking for Stars

Finding and Replacing Text

Finding and Replacing All Forms of a Word

Finding and Replacing Codes

Chapter 6: Fooling with Blocks of Text

Basic Blocks

Selecting Text with Your Mouse

The point-and-shoot approach

The QuickMenu approach

The menu-bar approach

Selecting Text with the Keyboard

Selecting Text with the Find Command

Selecting Text with Your Nose and a Pickle

Extending Selections

Doing Stuff with Selected Text

Deleting text

Moving text

Copying text

The Windows Clipboard

Copying and pasting with the Clipboard

Cutting and pasting with the Clipboard

The QuickMenu approach to Clipboarding

Chapter 7: Spelling, Grammar, and the Mighty Thesaurus

Checking Your Spelling

Spell-checking your entire document

Dealing with real words that WordPerfect doesn't know

Checking Your Grammar

The magic of Grammatik

The importance of being in style

Word counts and other statistics

The Mighty Thesaurus

Part II: Prettying Up Your Text

Chapter 8: Charming Characters

Emphasizing Text with Boldface, Italics, and Underlining

Formatting as you type

Yikes! Getting rid of formatting

Making Text Larger or Smaller

Fonts of Wisdom

Changing the font for some text

Changing the font for the rest of the document

The Master Control Panel for Character Formats

Using the options in the Font dialog box

Knowing when to use the Font dialog box

Formatting the entire document

Copying Character Formatting

Changing Capitalization

Chapter 9: Sexy Sentences and Pretty Paragraphs

Using the Ruler Bar

What are all those little triangles?

What's the Ruler Bar for?

Setting Margins

Using the Margins dialog box

Changing margins by using the Ruler Bar

Changing the margins for the rest of the document

Changing margins for a paragraph or two

Centering Text

Pushing Text Over to the Right Margin

Changing the Justification

Kinds of justification

How to justify your text

To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate

Playing with Tab Stops

Stop! Tab!

Setting tab stops

Using the Ruler Bar to set tab stops

Using Tabs, Spaces, and Indents

Indenting the first line of each paragraph

Setting up columnar tables

Tabbing backward

Changing the Line Spacing

Changing the Spacing between Paragraphs

Chapter 10: Perfect Pages and Dashing Documents

Setting the Page Size

Adjusting the Top and Bottom Margins

Starting a New Page

Keeping Text Together

Avoiding broken homes (widows and orphans)

Keeping your act together

Keeping your head together

Centering a Page, Top to Bottom

Looking at Different Views of Your Document

Numbering Pages

For all you roman numeral fans

Starting over again at 1

Adding Heads and Feets

Making a header or footer

Typing the text in a header or footer

Controlling where headers and footers print

Don't print it here!

Suppress that dormouse!

Discontinuing headers and footers

Getting rid of a header or footer

Making the feature bar go away

Chapter 11: The WordPerfect Secret Decoder Ring

What Are Secret Formatting Codes?

Seeing the Codes

The Reveal Codes window

Adjusting the size of the windows

Getting rid of the Reveal Codes window

Cracking the Codes

Looking at codes

Modifying codes

Deleting codes

Using the Open Style code

Using Character Codes

Dealing with Character Formatting Codes

Undoing character formatting

Editing formatted text

Undoing Sentence and Paragraph Formatting

Undoing Page and Document Formatting

Finding Codes

Finding all codes of one type

Finding specific codes

Knowing what to do after you find your code

Replacing Codes Automagically

Replacing specific codes with other codes

Replacing codes with other codes

Deleting all the codes

Mysterious Codes

Chapter 12: Documents with Style

What Is a Style?

Creating and Applying a Style

QuickStyling a character style

Applying a character style

QuickCreating a paragraph style

Applying a paragraph style

Creating a document style

Applying a document style

Headings and the InitialStyle

More Built-In Styles

Changing Styles with the Styles Editor

Turning Styles Off and Chaining Styles

Reusing Styles

Getting Rid of Styles

Part III: Things You Can Do with Documents

Chapter 13: On Paper at Last -- Printing Stuff

Ready to Print?

Printing the Entire Document

Printing Part of a Document

Printing selected text

Printing a specific page

Printing a bunch of pages but not all of them

Printing odd- or even-numbered pages

Printing several copies

Printing a Document on Disk

Printing Several Documents

Canceling a Print Job

Who ya gonna call?

WordPerfect, stop printing!

Stop, stop, I say!

Chapter 14: Juggling Documents on Your Screen

How Can You Work on Two Documents at a Time?

Switching between open documents

Making baby documents

Closing the curtains

Working with multiple documents

Maxing out

Windows within Windows

Seeing lots of windows

I want that one!

Sizing your windows

Maximizing your documents

Minimizing your documents

Saving all your open documents

Combining Documents

Inserting one document into another one

Saving a chunk of text as a separate document

What If the File Already Exists?

Using Foreign Files

Which format should I use?

Creating a foreign file

Reading a foreign file

Word processors versus food processors

Chapter 15: Juggling Files on Your Disk

A File by Any Other Name

Using Directories

Creating a directory

Removing a directory

Using the QuickList (a much easier way to talk about directories)

Saving a document to a new directory

Kinds of Files

Copying, Renaming, Deleting, and Moving Files

Telling WordPerfect which file you're talking about

Copying a file

Moving a file

Renaming a file

Deleting a File

Making Backups

Finding a File with a Forgotten Name

Searching for files by using more than one word

Searching for phrases

Chapter 16: Dressing Your Documents for Success

Working with Columns

Creating columns

Bad breaks and what to do about them

Working with Borders and Backgrounds

Basic borders

Some miscellaneous thoughts about borders

Working with Graphics

Inserting existing graphics

Positioning an image

Sizing an image

Graphics borders

Captions

Creating your own graphics

Using graphs and charts

Working with Text Boxes

Working with Tables

Making tables with Table QuickCreate

Adding or deleting rows and columns

Changing column width

Formatting with the Table Expert

Dealing with incredibly complex spreadsheet-like tables

Chapter 17: Using Templates

What Are Templates?

Using Templates

Templates That Come with WordPerfect

Creating Templates

Editing or Deleting Templates

Chapter 18: Creating Your Own Junk Mail

How Does the Junk-Mail Feature Work?

Creating a Data File

Entering the addresses of your victims

Ugly data files

Tasteful data files

Making corrections

Creating a Form File

Merging Your Files

Printing Your Data File

Printing Envelopes

Chapter 19: Recipes for Popular Documents

Letters

Skipping space for the letterhead on stationery

Printing your own letterhead

Dating your letter

Numbering the pages

Memos

Faxes

What do you need?

Just the fax, ma'am

Envelopes

Printing the address on the envelope

Tips for printing envelopes

Mailing Labels

Printing addresses on mailing labels

Selecting which addresses to print

Tips for printing labels

Booklets

Creating a booklet document

Printing your booklet -- the magic part

Tips for creating booklets

Reports and Other Big Documents

Creating the master document and subdocuments

Expanding the master document

Saving a master document

Editing a master document

Creating a table of contents

Creating an index

Inserting the index codes

Tips for making a good index

Part IV: Help Me, Rhonda!

Chapter 20: Improving WordPerfect's Behavior

Seeing Information About Your Documents

Entering better names for your documents

Seeing your descriptive names

Setting Your Favorite Font

Zooming Around in Your Documents

Expressing Your Preferences

Changing the Way WordPerfect Looks

Zooming

The Toolbar

The Power Bar

The Ruler Bar

The status bar

Displaying spaces, tabs, indents, and returns

Changing your colors

Where Does WordPerfect Put Your Files?

Telling WordPerfect about directories and backups

Getting back your timed backups

Assigning Different Meanings to Keys

Chapter 21: Fun with Windows

Switching to Other Windows Programs

The WordPerfect Window Revisited

What you can do when WordPerfect is minimized

What you can do when WordPerfect is maximized

What you can do when WordPerfect is in a window

Having Fun with the WordPerfect Program Icon

Icons and icons

Group therapy

Getting your icons organized

Making your own program group

Putting program icons in your program group

Starting WordPerfect automagically

Chapter 22: Solving Printing Problems

Goldilocks and the Three Printers

Impact printers

Ink-jet printers

Laser printers

Fixing Jams

Stop that printer!

Clean up your mess!

The Care and Feeding of Your Printer

Impact printers

Ink-jet printers

Laser printers

Selecting Which Printer to Use

Setting Up a New Printer

Operating the printer out of the box

Telling Windows about your new printer

Knowing what to do if your Windows printer driver doesn't work

Printing on a Network

Chapter 23: Don't Panic! Read This Chapter!

Where's WordPerfect? (Part 1)

Where's WordPerfect? (Part 2)

Where's My Document? (Part 1)

Where's My Document? (Part 2)

Where Am I?

The Entire Document Is Boldface!

The Screen Looks Weird!

My Document Isn't Printing!

Yikes! I Didn't Mean to Delete That!

They Can't Open My Document!

WordPerfect's Not Listening to Me!

A Document1 Backup File Exists?

Part V: The Part of Tens

Chapter 24: The Ten Not-to-Be-Broken Rules of WordPerfect

Tell WordPerfect What You Have in Mind

Do Not Use Extra Spaces or Tabs

Do Not Keep Pressing Enter to Begin a New Page

Do Not Number Your Pages Manually

Save Early and Often

Save Before Using the Edit-->Find and Replace Command

Back Up Your Work

Do Not Turn Off Your PC Until You Exit Windows

Turn On the Printer Before Printing Documents

Always Keep Printer Supplies on Hand

Chapter 25: Ten (or So) Awesome Tricks

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting with Other Programs

Dragging and Dropping Text

Returning to Where You Were

Going Back to That Old Same Place

Reopening an Earlier Document

Inserting the Date

Inserting Cool Characters

Using Unbreakable Hyphens and Spaces

Chasing Speeding Bullets

Converting Tabs to Tables

Inserting Other Files

Linking Spreadsheets and Databases

Chapter 26: Ten Features We Don't Use but You Might

Comments

Cross References

Line Numbering

Hypertext

Kickoff

Equations

Outlines

Macros

TextArt

Footnotes and Endnotes

Appendix: Installing WordPerfect for Windows

Installing WordPerfect the First Time

Starting the installation program

Deciding which type of installation to perform

Standard installation: the easy way

Custom installation: the tricky way

Minimum installation: the last-resort way

Adding or Removing Features

Adding new printer drivers, fonts, or conversions

Installing additional WordPerfect features

Uninstalling

The Installation Process

Index

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