lrb@alex.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) (06/06/91)
my secretary, under word4dos, got into the habit of inserting left chevrons
throughout documents to enable jumping from area to area by using the CTRL-'>'
keystroke (move to form field marker).
we cannot figure how to do this jumping in w4w.
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In article <3284@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> lrb@alex.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) writes: >my secretary, under word4dos, got into the habit of inserting left chevrons >throughout documents to enable jumping from area to area by using the CTRL-'>' >keystroke (move to form field marker). > > >we cannot figure how to do this jumping in w4w. Lance, First off, know that WfW is much more closely related to Word for the MAC than it is to Word for DOS. The equivalent to a chevron (begin field) in WfDOS is an actual Field marker, which is insserted with Ctrl-F9. You could use this. If you were going to search for the next one it would be EditSearch .Search = "^19", or even NextField (which is f11). But since that would find all next fields, you might want to create a pair of macros. One that inserts a marker (it could be formatted as Hidden so it won't print), and one that looks for the next occurence of that marker: InsertMarker: Sub Main Hidden Hidden() ' Toggle Hidden Insert "Holder" Hidden Hidden() End Sub FindMarker Sub Main ViewPreferences .Hidden = 1 'Make sure hidden is on EditSearch .Search = "PlaceHolder" End Sub You can then assign them both to a menu and/or a key combination, The built in MacroAssignToKey will not allow you to assign to Ctrl->, but a macro I wrote called MacroKey (found in GTOOLS2.ZIP) will (or you can write a macro to assign the macro...look up MacroAssignToKey in the TechRef, or Techref.doc) Hope this points in a helpful direction.
larry@palan.uucp (Larry Strickland) (06/08/91)
In article <1991Jun7.045532.5742@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> gg2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Guy Gallo) writes: >In article <3284@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> lrb@alex.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) writes: >>my secretary, under word4dos, got into the habit of inserting left chevrons >>throughout documents to enable jumping from area to area by using the CTRL-'>' >>keystroke (move to form field marker). >>... >First off, know that WfW is much more closely related to Word for the MAC >than it is to Word for DOS. > >The equivalent to a chevron (begin field) in WfDOS is an actual Field marker, >which is insserted with Ctrl-F9. If I might jump in here just a bit. It sounds like you are using DOS Word 'fields' for a fill-in form. This is one nice bit that wasn't in the Mac Word (too bad, too). However, there is an auto FILLIN (I think) field that will do the equivalent for you in WfW. You insert the FILLIN fields (use the Insert/Field menu and select FILLIN (or whatever you see is close to that) in the location in your document where you want a filled in item. There are more arguments for prompts and so forth, see the manual. Now, to fill-in the form, load it up (best saved as a template first for easy modification) and do the Update Field operation, F9. You should see dialog boxes for each fillin field asking you for appropriate information. When done, save or print as usual. Disclaimer: I'm doing this from memory, so the names may have been changed to protect the guilty. It DOES work, though. -larry