jrk@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA) (11/15/90)
When I do a Print Merge in Word 4, it complains if it finds unmatched merge quotes (the option-backslash and shift-option-backslash characters). Reasonable enough, but what do I do if I want to use those characters as characters, rather than as merge command delimiters? I have looked in the manual, but not found an answer. Please email me - I read this group, but news reception here is flaky. -- Richard Kennaway SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. Internet: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk uucp: ...mcvax!ukc!uea-sys!jrk
jrk@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA) (11/21/90)
I recently asked here: > When I do a Print Merge in Word 4, it complains if it finds unmatched > merge quotes (the option-backslash and shift-option-backslash characters). > Reasonable enough, but what do I do if I want to use those characters as > characters, rather than as merge command delimiters? I received a reply from someone at Microsoft, saying it isnt possible (but that a future version of Word may let you specify which characters to use as merge quotes). Ah well. One work-around is to find another font with the glyphs you want, but associated with different character codes. The ones I want are set-union and set-intersection, which the Symbol font has as the merge-quotes, hence my problem. But I have another mathematical font with much the same glyphs at different character codes. If you want the actual << and >> glyphs, these are the merge-quote characters of all the fonts which have them that I looked at. But you can fake them with: <\D\BA1()< or <\D\BA2()< Here '<' is not the less-than character, but shift-option-3, which is present in all the alphabetic PostScript fonts I looked at (but is missing from all the standard bitmap-only fonts, including New York, Geneva, and Monaco) and prints almost identically to half a merge quote. '\' is the command-option-backslash formula character. Alternatively, two shift-option-3 characters, the first with Compressed 1.75 character style. Strangely, whether or not I use Fractional Widths, this prints identically to <\D\BA1()<, even though it should surely be 0.75pt narrower. Use shift-option-4 to fake the close merge quote. -- Richard Kennaway SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. Internet: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk uucp: ...mcvax!ukc!uea-sys!jrk
alanh@cup.portal.com (Alan E Hattman) (11/29/90)
In article <14864.9011201902@s4.sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@information-systems.east-a ia.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA) writes: >> When I do a Print Merge in Word 4, it complains if it finds unmatched >> merge quotes (the option-backslash and shift-option-backslash characters). >> Reasonable enough, but what do I do if I want to use those characters as >> characters, rather than as merge command delimiters? The easiest way around this problem is to covert your data document into a table. The insert table command will ask if you want to use tab delimeter, comma delimeter, paragraphs or side by side. I set all my documents using tabs. Once the table is created you can type *anything* you want in each field including all the commas, quotation marks, etc. you want without worry.
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (11/29/90)
In article <36322@cup.portal.com>, alanh@cup.portal.com (Alan E Hattman) writes: > The easiest way around this problem is to covert your data document into a > table. The insert table command will ask if you want to use tab delimeter, > comma delimeter, paragraphs or side by side. > > I set all my documents using tabs. Once the table is created you can type > *anything* you want in each field including all the commas, quotation marks, > etc. you want without worry. I don't know about that. Ever tried typing a TAB into a table? The only way I've been able to do it is to type one somewhere else, then cut it and paste it into the table cell. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
grahams@milton.u.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) (11/30/90)
In article <1990Nov29.054400.24922@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes: >I don't know about that. Ever tried typing a TAB into a table? The only >way I've been able to do it is to type one somewhere else, then cut it and >paste it into the table cell. >-- Try typing option-tab. Steve Graham graham@isis.e.washington.edu
folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (11/30/90)
Would this work:
1. Use '<<' and '>>' instead of the merge quotes, wherever you do not
actually want a merge variable reference.
2. Mail merge, but to a new file, not your printer.
3. In the new file, Change All the opening quote for '<<' and closing quote
for '>>'.
4. Print the new file.
Strangely, I had originally intended to use option-P instead of option-\ and
shift-option-P instead of shift-option-\, but Word refuses to find the
character option-p. It will find option-8 (the bullet), but not shift-option-P.
A Nisus user,
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Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) (12/03/90)
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick) writes in a message on 29 Nov 90: PM> Ever tried typing a TAB into a table? The only way I've been PM> able to do it is to type one somewhere else, then cut it and PM> paste it into the table cell. hehehehe This one eluded me, too, for about 5 seconds. I looked at the problem, saw that Word allowed tab markers in the ruler for a table, and decided it _must_ be possible, so I tried the first thing that came to mind--modifying the tab with the option key. Works like a charm. To summarize, option-tab will let you tab within a cell in a Word 4 table. Plain tab sends you to the next cell. --Adam-- -- Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200.2!Adam.Frix INET: Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG
anderson@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Joseph Anderson) (12/24/90)
Alas, somebody answered the original question with an answered in the Word help on the application. Now I've got a question.....did I misunderstand the question or are you inferring that word will not handle (or will confuse) Shift . and shift , (Typed twice in either case) with option backslash commands? anderson@cat.syr.edu