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PC MAGAZINE Productivity Columns Index For Vol 6, 1-22 (Jan-Dec 1987) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject Title Num Page Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 123 More On Future Value 1P310 Formulas for payments made in arrears and payments made in advance BASIC Editing With A 1P310 How to use the spreadsheet to write Spreadsheet BASIC programs Elegant Borders 1P310 BASIC program to create a .DIF file containing high bit border characters for importing to Rel 1A spreadsheet Colors In 1-2-3 1P325 How to patch 123.SET with DEBUG to Rel 2.0 change display colors for CGA Sorting Data 2P281 Reverse the order of data in a column with /Data Fill and /Data Sort Adding @TIME To Rel 1A 2P282 Patch to replace @RAND with @TIME Variable Addresses In 5P363 Formulas that create macro statements Macros using indirect addressing Undocumented Name-Key 5P364 NAME (F3) can also be used with /File Use commands that produce a list of files Year-To-Date Totals 5P364 Formula that speeds up year-to-date calculations Differences Between 5P383 Turbo Pascal function that creates Dates a year, month, day to serial format used by 1-2-3 123 A 1-2-3 @@ Function 6P309 Inconsistent results, one step behind Quirk in recalculation Quirk In 1-2-3 @@ 16P386 Caused by confusion over order of Function recalculation More On The @@ Quirk 16P388 Calculation correct if calculation order is by row instead of column Screen Updates After 6P310 Press Enter key to update screen {LET} after {LET} operation Protecting Files 6P310 Prevent loss of new workseet by in- cluding an empty read-only worksheet starting with 0 in working directory More Fonts For 1-2-3 6P311 Use fonts in Rel 1A by changing extension from .FON to .FNT Finding The Column 7P337 Use @CHAR to find column letter of Letter current cell More On Column Letters 7P338 Formulas that returns the column let- ter of the cell containing the form- ula and of the current cell Importing Text And 7P338 An alternative to Rel 2.0 method of Numbers parsing mixed data Centering Text 8P312 Method for centering text strings 123 Running 123 From 8P312 CopyWrite and CopyIIPC let you run RAM Disk 123 from RAM disk Hiding Spreadsheet 8P315 Change standard file name extensions Files to other names Measuring For Measure 9P371 Spreadsheet ruler that will not appear on printout Quick Copying 9P372 To speed cell copying, name source ranges, delete old range names Hiding Formulas 9P372 Rel 1A method for hiding formulas reformats them as text Using Macros As Sub- 10P367 Technique to turn macros into sub- routines routines and subroutines into macros Formulas That Know 11P393 Rel 1A can be made to understand Eng- English lish and manipulate text Finding The Day Of 11P394 Formulas to find day of the week for The Week for any 20th or 21st century date Days Of Our Lives 22P374 Formula that displays day of week with Rel 2 that is simpler than technique in 11P394 Room To Boot 11P396 CopyIIPC removes hidden files from System Disk giving room to add DOS 123 Underlining Labels 12P352 Method for underlining long labels that avoids guesswork Getting To Point Mode 12P353 Switching between EDIT and POINT mode 1-2-3 Puzzler 13P449 Inconsistancy in @IF function when summing real numbers Spreadsheet Riddle 18P381 Floating point routines cause @IF errors Painless Entry 13P449 Patch to eliminate call to copyright screen in Rel 1A Formal Date Notation 13P450 Formula to display today's date in notation: July 6, 1987 Keep It Simple 13P450 Using conventions that may be con- fusing to some readers unless ex- plained Upgrading System Disk 13P480 Upgrading the files on Rel 1A disk to DOS 3.1 Inverting Columns Of 14P462 Formulas for inverting a column of Data data Too Many Translators 14P462 Delete unneeded translation utility files to save disk space 123 Getting Rid of ERR 15P405 Formula that turns ERR into 0 Changing Range Names 15P408 A quick way to change range names Coloring Projections 17P454 Two color 1-2-3 bar charts disting- uish historical data from projections Editing Complex 18P381 Save unfinished or invalid formulas Formulas by temporarily making them labels Room To Boot 18P382 Use DISKPREP (12/9/86) to make room for DOS system files on Rel 2 program disk Search And Return 19P493 Leave current cell and return without macros by using /Copy function Underlining Labels 20P381 Formulas to underline labels AutoExec Control 21P461 Different ways to keep autoexec macros from running immediately Bug In The Range 22P371 Bug in @ functions when expanding Function single cell into a multiple cell range Long Formulas 22P374 Use single letter range names to include more terms in the 240 character limit 123 Getting To A Range 22P374 Undocumented technique to get full screen and control panel displays of range names ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 123 MACRO Cell Reference 1P309 Macros to create new notes to attach Notepad to other cells and query the notes More Menu Choices 2P281 Macro allows more than 8 menu choices Erasing Whole Columns 3P337 Macro that uses data commands to erase whole columns at one time Hiding Macro Scripts 3P341 Start each line with \ followed by number of spaces equal to column width and then {ESC} Renaming Ranges 4P297 Macros to change range names Cell Test Macros 4P297 Macros that make decisions based on cell contents Centering Text 4P298 Macros that center text Blanking The Screen 4P299 Macro subroutines that turn screen updating on and off Quick Copies 5P363 Macro to copy a range to a new location Speeding Up Macros 5P366 Move cursor to a blank spreadsheet area in Rel 1A 123 MACRO Limiting Valid Data 6P309 Macro uses @code testing to limit Entry input to certain cells and values Getting To The Bottom 7P338 Macro that sends the cursor to the bottom of the current column International Touch 8P311 Macros that easily add characters accent marks to text Transposing Ranges 10P368 Macro that transposes rows and col- umns in a way that preserves formulas just as /Move does Search For Embedded 10P368 Macro for finding an embedded string Strings in 123 database Padding With Periods 12P351 Macros to pad out with periods a column of cells to full column width Securing Your 12P352 Macros to password protect worksheet Worksheet and record unauthorized snooping Saving Files With 12P352 Macros to save files and opt to Macros replace old files with new Speeding Up Macros 13P452 Speed up macros using {BLANK}, {BRANCH}, {WINDOWSOFF}, {PANELOFF} Managing Extended 14P461 Macro for inserting extended ASCII ASCII Characters characters at any place in a worksheet 123 MACRO Easy Range Deletion 14P461 Macro to delete a range name from a table of range names Managing Files 15P405 Macro that reads a directory from drive B: into a worksheet and then parses the file as numbers and text Error Trapping In 16P385 Macro that traps errors or cancels 1-2-3 trapping to prevent incorrect branching Listings Into File 17P451 Macro to convert a directory entry Names into a loadable file name Spaced-Out Macros 17P451 Problems caused by leading and trail- ing spaces in macro scripts Unhappy Returns 17P452 Dangers of manipulating rows and col- umns from within macro subroutines Function Keys For 18P382 Macro that uses function keys to make Macros menu choices Easy Underlining 18P382 Two macros to underline labels Spreadsheet At Work 19P497 Macro to put a message on screen with time telling user that computer is busy Difficult Sorts 19P497 Macro for sorting multirow entries 123 MACRO The Dating Game 20P382 Macro to enter date in form MMDDYY Labels As Range Names 20P382 Macro to name multicell ranges above, below, right, or left of current cell Securing Spreadsheets 20P382 Simple macro to password protect a spreadsheet Fail Safe Macro 21P461 Macro that will run only when the cursor is on a cell containing the label ERASE Easy Data Entry 21P462 Macro to simply entering data records into a database range Debugging Macros 22P371 Techniques for debugging macros International 22P372 Macro to add accented characters us- Characters ing menus instead of compose sequence ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 123 PRINT Finding Print Range 3P335 Formulas that determine how wide the Width print range will be in Rel 2 Print Range Ruler 3P335 Macro that builds a ruler to find out if spreadsheet will fit on page Banner Printing 3P337 Method to use spreadsheet as a banner printer Skip Columns When 7P337 Macro to print selected columns from Printing wider worksheet Embedding Setup Strings 9P371 Techniques for embedding printer set- up strings in worksheets Checking Print Range 11P394 Macros that count the width of a Width print range Skipping Columns In 16P386 Hide unwanted columns from printing Printing in Rel 2 123 PRINT Print Range Width 20P381 Macro to display running total of print range width in mode indicator while moving the cursor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSEMBLER Using The 8087 In 12P383 Programming the 8087 coprocessor with Assembler MASM and SYMDEB number formats Chomping At The Bits 14P493 Detailed explanation of Boolean operations at the binary level Power Programing 20P377 Assembler and DOS reference books Building A Sound 21P447 Structure assembler programs to make Structure maintenance and debugging easier Parsing Routines In C 22P365 Library routines ARGC & ARGV for And Assembler parsing command line arguements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BASIC A Quick Look At 1P285 Multiline functions, subprograms, QuickBASIC 2.0 interpreted vs compiled, block struc- tured if/then/else, metacommands, large arrays/programs, using assembly language subroutines, command$, env- iron$, string handling, tips/tricks Can't Use PC-DOS 1P326 Comment on using BASIC on IBM clones, BASICA recommend MS QuickBASIC Using Command Lines In 3P360 Passing parameters from command line BASIC difficult with BASICA, use MS Quick- BASIC instead Fast Borders 8P335 Put border around entire screen with POKER.BAS and BORDER.BAS Compiled Windows 8P338 Blank windows with WINDOW.BAS for MS BASIC compilers Turbocharging BASIC, 9P331 New BASIC capabilities with Borland Part 1 Turbo BASIC; optimized display write; coprocessor support; binary disk files; true recursion; long integers; case select; meta statements; true local variables Turbocharging BASIC, 11P361 New capabilities and comparison with Part 2 QuickBASIC 2.0; CEIL; INCR & DECR; DELAY; UCASE$ & LCASE$; INSTAT; EXP2 & EXP10; &B & BIN$; no linking; 64K string space; call absolute; call interrupt; recursion; calling INLINE routines; bench marks; ENDMEM & MEMSET Far Faster Graphics 9P396 Create fast split screen slide shows with PARTLOAD.BAS QuickBASIC 2.0 And The 9P403 EgaBsave and EgaBload save and load EGA graphics Redo From Start 10P397 Writing input routines to avoid draw- backs of "?Redo from Start" BASIC 64 Colors In BASIC 11P425 Show BASICA's and QuickBASIC's 64 colors with PALTEST.BAS and EGAPALLET.COM Fast Screen Writing In 17P389 Make instant screen displays using BASIC, Part 1 assembler code QPRINT in BASIC, QuickBASIC, and Turbo BASIC Fast Screen Writing In 18P349 Saving, restoring windows in BASIC, BASIC, Part 2 TBASIC & QBASIC using assembler code Copying Files Inside 17P479 Copy files inside QBASIC with BASIC FILECOPY.BAS Springing Bail In QB 17P481 Returning to QBASIC after using or merging text from Sidekick Keeping BASIC Time 17P481 Display time in QBASIC or BASCOM with call to assembler routine CLOCK 43 Line Text In TBASIC 18P357 Subroutines to use EGA in TurboBASIC Smart Word Wrap 18P399 Subroutine to print long strings with with word wrap Numerical Limits 18P399 User defined BASIC function simulates Turbo BASIC's CEIL function Handling Special 18P399 Reloading QuickBASIC files for edit- Characters ing that contain graphics characters BASIC Monitoring Stack Use 18P400 Assembler routine for QuickBASIC reports stack register setting Rounding And Floating 19P519 Method for rounding floating point numbers to a given decimal place Reading Disk Labels 20P405 Use QB's INT86 for a DOS call to return a disk volume label Creating & Using 21P379 How to use subroutine libraries to Program Libraries to save time in developing and run- ning programs; subroutines to detect CGA, EGA, VGA, and Hercules monitors More QB Lib Options 21P485 Undocumented ways to build libraries Creating Graphics 22P387 "Etch A Sketch" lines and circles Screens with DRAW.BAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BATCH Adding Power To Batch 3P299 Obtain ERRORLEVEL return codes for Programs filesize, filefound, file text, disk- space, memory, videocard, CPU model, coprocessor, time, day, month, video- mode, version, keyboard buffer, and ASCII key code with CHECK.COM Real Batch Variables 3P350 Patch COMMAND.COM to enter a variable from a batch file into the DOS envir- onment Prompt Switching Batch 6P290 Change prompt from command line with File STPROMPT.BAT Path Switching Batch 6P291 Change DOS path from command line File with SWPATH.BAT Ask Error Level 7P355 Prompt user and set ERRORLEVEL with ASK.COM Ultimate ERRORLEVEL 8P335 Improve on standard ERRORLEVEL Routine branching with YESNO.COM 8087 Sniffer 8P339 Check presence of 8087/80287 coproc- essor with CHK8087.COM Kicking The Pipe Habit 13P472 Cut batch file execution time by using redirection instead of pipes Flexible ERRORLEVEL 13P474 IF ERRORLEVEL batch file branching utility using single keystroke with KEYPRESS.COM BATCH Command Nesting 16P390 Nesting IF statements to speed up batch files that check user inputs Easy DOS Messages 18P386 Create another file with a message interactively with MSG.BAT Remember To Exit 19P495 Batch file to remind you to exit when entering DOS from inside a program Batch Power Trio 21P468 Position cursor anywhere on screen with LOCATE.COM; Pause batch program a specified number of seconds with WAIT.COM; Print message in reverse video with ECOH.COM Time Delay 21P501 Delay execution of a batch command for 1 to 999 seconds with WAIT.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C Power Programing 20P377 List of C programing reference books Listing .DBF Structure 21P480 List dBASE .DBF structure with DBHEAD.C Parsing Routines In C 22P365 Library routines argc & argv for And Assembler parsing command line arguements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMUN- Crosstalk Timing 2P286 Patch Crosstalk 3.5 to change timing ICATIONS for connection and retry Silence Is Golden 4P304 How to turn off modem speaker in Crosstalk Sidekick Patching 10P386 How to patch SK Autodialer for non standard modems Need Sync/Async Dialup 15P413 Universal Data Systems Sync-Up modem offers async and sync auto-dialing PC Magazine's IRS 16P417 Uses Chairmen software, Arnet serial ports, Hayes and Multitech modems IBM's Typos 16P418 IBM's 2400 bps 5842 external modem supports synchronous autodialing File Transfer Conflict 16P420 Microcom error-correcting modems may cutoff file transfer if byte = 1 Remotely Insecure 18P391 Gain control over a remote answering Crosstalk system Crosstalk And The 18P391 Crosstalk script file to hang up and Busy Signal redial if the modem reports busy Increased Costs For 18P409 Proposed rate hike on information Data Calls services like MCI Mail & CompuServe COMMUN- Model 100 Transfers 20P399 Transfer text files from a Tandy 100 ICATIONS or NEC 8200 to a PC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DBASE dBASE By The Week 2P286 Method to convert dBIII data fields to proceeding Sunday Recycling dBASE 2P289 Method to reuse obsolete data records Records instead of waiting for rePACKing Recycling 22P384 Procedure to empty contents of obsolete record and recycle Debug With DOTPROM 2P290 Simulate dot prompt so you can find out what is going on inside program with DOTPROM.PRG Clearing With Clipper 4P301 Add dBIII CLEAR TO to Clipper Memo Field Diet Plan 4P301 Remove deleted memo field space with dBIII COPY TO Zero Zapper 4P302 Strip leading zeros from numeric and character fields Pause Plus 6P320 dBIII procedure to display temporary messages of variable time duration Enhancing dBase 6P323 Embed printer control characters in Reports the .FRM files Double Macro Function 6P326 Use macro substitution function (&) to concatenate two macros DBASE Doublescreen 8P325 Pan across screens with 2SCREEN.PRG and Personal Programing's BROWSE Missing Persons Report 8P332 Clipper and dBIII bug can accidently mass delete records Faster dBase LTRIM 10P382 Speedup for dBIII+ LTRIM function Function Keys In dBase 12P366 Set function keys to issue control characters in dBIII Custom Help In 12P366 Access and modify the dBII help file dBase II Just Looking, Thanks 14P473 Use dB3+ BROWSE command to simulate a browsing program. Making F1 The "In" Key 14P475 Use the function keys to solicit the user's choice in dBase & Clipper A Round() About Answer 14P481 Fix dBIII discrepency in rounding negative numbers Rooting Out The 17P469 Obtain absolute values when program- Absolute ing early versions of dBIII Clipper's Interactive 17P469 Clipper allows multiple GETs within a single READ statement DBASE Checking The 17P474 Functions that check the DOS environ- Environment ment before running a dBase program Initializing dBase 18P393 Automate initializing memory var- Variables iables for new dBIII+ records Better PgDn In DBASE 19P513 Land on the same field when paging through records Single-Pass Statistics 20P399 Derive multiple totals of DBIII+ field's contents in a single pass dBASE Data Check 20P402 Quickly validate input in an open lookup file with Clipper Lookup() Password Protection 21P477 Give subtle password protection to DB3+ with PASSWORD.PRG III Plus Time Bomb 21P477 ON ERROR doesn't trap some potentially disatrous errors DOS Prompt In dBASE 21P480 Access DOS and run programs from within dB with DOSPROM.PRG Listing .DBF Structure 21P480 Use utility DBHEAD.EXE to output to any device Functional Dating 22P381 Add slashes to date entry in dB3+ DBASE The Finishing Touch 22P381 Strip indents and comments from dB programs or add indents latter with FINISH.PRG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISPLAYS More Browse Power 2P294 Customize screen colors and option- ally clear the screen with PCOLOR.COM Color Me DOS 3P357 Using PROMPT and ANSI.SYS to set display colors in DOS Using Two Displays 11P428 DOS MODE command lets you switch between color and mono monitors Get The Full EGA 12P311 Let existing software use the Color Spectrum EGA's extended color palette with SPECTRUM.COM Monitor Sniffer 13P471 Detect type of monitor used with Quickbasic MONCHECK.BAS EGA Color CLS 14P483 Set 43 line mode, user defined colors and clear screen with CLSEGA.COM EGA Detector 14P484 Determine presence with EGATEST.COM Detecting ANSI.SYS 15P445 Checking from within a program whether or no ANSI.SYS is loaded EGA Underlines 17P459 Display underlined characters on EGA with UNDERLN.COM, UNDERLN2.COM, and EGAUNDER.COM What Print Screen 18P359 Cut and paste part of screen into a Should Have Been file or print it with SNIPPER.COM DISPLAYS Getting Control Of 19P463 Change cursor shape and rescue cursor Your Cursor after exiting programs with CTYPE.COM A Colorfast Screen & 20P349 Preserve the cursor size/shape and Stable Cursor DOS colors you select with STICK.COM Turning Off PrtSc 20P412 Disable Printscreen function with NOINT5.COM or NOPRTSC.COM EGA Border Colors 21P494 Set border colors with EGABORD.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOS Get SET 1P323 Using the SET command What Is PIF? 1P326 Explanation of .PIF files Lightning Fast 2P293 Patch DISKCOPY.COM to make multiple Diskcopies copies of the same diskette Digging Deeper Into 4P277 Tips on using COPY, CHKDSK, FORMAT, DOS, Part 1 FIND, SORT, COMMAND.COM, replaceable parameters, IF, SHIFT, CONFIG.SYS, Digging Deeper Into 5P331 How to use BREAK, PROMPT, ANSI.SYS, DOS, Part 2 redirecting input/output, DOS 3x, SELECT, batch file tricks, XCOPY, CONFIG.SYS parameters, environment Spare Changer 4P309 Find a subdirectory without specif- ing the full path with CHD.COM as long has all subdirectories on drive are unique Powerful F3 Tricks 4P313 Tips on use of the F3 key Exemplary? Execrable? 5P383 Comments on the .EXE and .COM file formats A User's Guide To The 6P287 Managing the DOS environment; SET, DOS Environment PATH and PROMPT commands Super DOS String 6P329 Filter MID$ n,m returns string m char Handler long starting n char from beginning of source string using MID$.COM DOS Switched On FIND 6P330 Use wildcards and FIND switches /C, /V with WILDFILE.BAT Expanding The DOS 7P295 Using DEBUG to display environment, Environment programs to test/modify size, access- ing from C and assembler. DOS And Disk Drives 7P365 Assembler routine to check the validity of a particular disk drive Widening The Path 8P341 Several ways to modify PATH and access the DOS environment table Warm Boot From A 12P383 Reboot computer from batch files with Program WARMBOOT.COM and COLDBOOT.COM DOS Lives 13P175 New features of DOS 3.3. APPEND, FASTOPEN, @, CALL, foreign keyboards Better Automation 13P475 Use pipes in commands instead of batch file redirection to save space Popping Out Your 14P419 Add and subtract memory resident pro- Pop-Ups grams with INSTALL.COM, REMOVE.COM, and PCMAP.COM Expanding DOS At The 15P357 Memory resident command line editor, Touch Of A Finger keyboard macros, color changer with DOSKEY.COM Preserving The 15P434 Preserve PATH and PROMPT environment Environment settings before changing them with SET >RESET.BAT DOS Multiple Choices 15P440 Doing multiple arguments for DOS commands on the same command line using FOR, %, | functions. A Directory Manager 16P351 Rename, hide, create, and delete directories with RN.COM Internal Error 19P435 Save on screen data and make error Handling In PC-DOS handling more useful with SAFARI.COM Trapping Ctrl-Alt-Del 19P503 Prevent Ctrl-Alt-Del from rebooting with NOBOOT.COM The Twofold Path 19P504 Temporarily add directories to PATH with PATHADD.BAT and PATHOLD.BAT Upgrading DOS Versions 20P411 Comment on upgrading to new version Bootable Disks 20P412 Why software publishers let you copy DOS onto their diskettes Putting Old Programs 22P329 How to use ASSIGN, SUBST, and JOIN to In New Bottles let old programs use hard disks and subdirectories Deinstalling TSRs 22P391 An explanation of how TSRs intall in memory and how to remove them DOS Converting To .COM 22P394 Why many .EXE files can't be Files converted by EXE2BIN to .COM files ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILES Files Fly With DIREX 1P295 Copy, delete, protect or unprotect selected files from a screen that lists up to 120 filenames DIREX Correction 7P314 Patch to allow DIREX.COM to handle files larger than 62KB Making DIR Do Double 2P251 List files from two drives or Duty subdirectories simultaneously with SCANDIR.COM or DIRCOMP.COM Easy Global Erasing 2P296 Batch files to eliminate the "Are you sure?" prompt to DEL *.* A Very Savvy Search 4P287 File search/string search with case Utility sensitivity/printer echo using SEARCH No Bytes 5P381 Create 0 byte length file with DEBUG W and Q DEBUG And Disk Sectors 5P384 How to use DEBUG to hide a file or directory Preventing Copy 6P295 Confirm before overwriting files Disasters using the same name with COPYSAFE.COM Fast File Scanner 6P331 List contents of multiple files with SCANBATS.BAT and READ.BAT Instant Access To 7P313 Popup directory listing of any drive To Directories from within application with XDIR.COM FILES X-Rated XDIR 12P347 Major bugs, obtain revised copy Comparing Directories 10P389 Find and copy files on one directory and not another with UNIQ.BAT, NC.BAT Outlining Your Hard 10P389 Use outliners or VTREE to help keep Disk your hard disk organized Subdirectory Woes 10P397 Use RAMdisk or DOS 3.X SUBST to make old programs recognize subdirectories Clean Out Clones The 11P377 List duplicate filenames over all Easy Way subdirectories with REPEATS.COM Better Deleter 12P371 Delete a group of files and indicate which ones are gone with DELETE.COM Total Destruction 12P377 Delete all files in a directory with no feedback using DELALL2.COM Doing What DIR 14P437 View, rename, move and delete files Doesn't with DR.COM Adding Notes To 15P385 DIRNOTES.COM presents a sorted dir- Directories ectory listing with a 38 character description of each file Zero Byte Files 15P446 Hidden volume label files and zero byte files made by REMed redirection FILES Listing All Files 15P448 How to display or print all files on a hard disk Double Dot Disaster 16P393 Patch COMMAND.COM to discourage novices from globally deleting files The End-Of-File Marker 16P414 Redirection of output can append extra text after end-of-file mark Filling In The Blanks 17P488 Removing blanks from file and direct- names File Formats 17P493 File formats for 123, Symphony, dBase, Multimate, Wordstar etc in book File Formats for Popular PC Software by J. Walden ASCII Cleaner 18P385 Display ASCII characters only in a file, skip over non ASCII with TYPEA More Efficient Copies 18P388 Copy up to 8 multiple filespecs on same command line with COPYEASY.BAT Understanding Overlays 18P405 An explanation of the meaning and function of overlay files The Complete Copy 21P397 Copy, delete, move, sort tagged files Utility and monitor disk space with CO.COM Running Hidden Files 21P496 DOS versions before 3.0 would not run files with hidden attribute FILES Zapping Directories 22P375 Delete all files in subdirectory and remove subdirectory with RFD.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRAMEWORK Quick Moves In 6P310 Use COPY instead of MOVE Framework Integrating Programs 15P445 Using Framework or Microsoft Windows to combine worksheet and text files Undocumented Functions 16P385 @version, @reporterror, @hyper, @execparms, @exerc for FRII Cross Multiplying 21P462 User defined function that cross multiplies ranges of numbers for FRII ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GRAPHICS Drawing Made Easy 9P343 Create pictures and graphics without programming using DRAW.COM More Characters From 16P339 Add extended ASCII characters to text Your Keyboard files with resident KBX.COM Color Exerciser 20P386 Show a kaliedoscope of color with self modifying program DAZZLER.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYBOARDS Another ANSI Solution 3P358 Use ANSI.SYS to redefine keys And An ANSI Problem 3P358 Use PROMPT and ANSI.SYS to redefine keys Shifting The Keyboard 4P315 How to turn off/on the Insert, Caps- lock, NumLock, ScrollLock, Alt, Ctrl, Left Shift and Right Shift keys from BASIC, assembly language, Turbo Pascal and C programs Keyboards Out Of Sync 4P317 Get caps and num lites in sync with actual clone keyboard state with REVCAPS.COM and REVNUM.COM Disable Typematic 5P378 Disable autorepeat with NOREPEAT.COM Action Keyboard Relief 11P413 Make the new IBM keyboard more con- venient for Wordstar with IBMFIX.COM Out Of Sync Keyboards 12P383 How to synchronize CapsLock and Num- Lock with LEDs on KeyTronic KB 5151 Mouse Software: See 13P411 Use MOUSEKEY.COM as substitute for How They Run the four cursor keys, PgUp and PgDn Enhanced Keyboard 13P479 Give DOS access to new IBM enhanced keyboard codes with NEWKEYS.COM The Enhanced Keyboard 15P378 Check BIOS to see if it supports Enhanced keyboard with KBTEST.COM KEYBOARDS NumLock Warning 16P389 Beep when NumLock is on and the keypad is touched with CLICK.COM Keyboard Confusion 18P403 Return scan codes and extended codes with SCAN.COM and BIOS.COM Key Swapping 19P527 Redefine one key to another with KEYSUB.COM Locked Up 21P467 Set or reset CapsLock, NumLock, ScrollLock & Insert with LOX.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIGHTNING Turbo Lightning And 12P364 Use larger sector size when putting RAMdisks dictionary files on RAMdisk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MISC Instant ASCII At Your 5P349 Pop-up ASCII table of entire IBM Service character set with ASC.COM Designing Menus A La 10P313 Produce Lotus style menus for a 123- 1-2-3 like interface with MAKEBAR.COM Looking Just Like 10P339 Popup MAKEBAR.COM 123-like menus with 1-2-3 with SLASHBAR.COM Your Pop-Up 13P433 Save up to five pages of notes with Stenographer resident utility PAD.COM Debugging DEBUG 16P392 Modify DEBUG to display nonprinting and ASCII characters Desktop Filing And 17P401 Create a pop-up Rolodex card file and Dialing auto dialer with CARDFILE.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NETWORKS Who Needs NETBIOS? 6P315 Functions of IBM NETBIOS program LAN Or Mini 6P315 Differences between LAN and mini- computer with terminals The Upgrade Path 6P316 Considerations on adding local or file server storage Nonblue Solutions 7P343 Networking PC's to Sperry or DEC cpu Shoemaker's Children 7P343 Comment on using twisted pair or coax, digital PBX and NETBIOS Server Slowdown 8P317 Check server hard disk and cables to fix 3Com LAN slowdown Data Indigestion 8P317 Use Lotus Express or Transporter to help clean up garbled transmissions Calling All Cards 8P320 LANalyzer can help detect radar pulses interfering with EtherLink Definition, Please 9P377 Definition of TCP/IP compatibility, used in Novell LAN advertisements Turbos And Compatibles 9P377 Compatibility of Novell, IBM, and 3Com networks with high speed servers NETWORKS Bridging PC Lan And 9P377 Replace PC LAN with Advanced NetWare Netware Incredible! 9P378 Fox Research's 10-NET provides excel- lent printer spooling and security Performance Testing 9P378 Use Innovative Software's LAN Per- formance Test for network specs Replace A Mini? 10P375 IBM System 34 or 36 may be replaced by a PC AT based LAN in near future Replacing A Mini- 16P417 BABY/36 and Dataflex convert or re- Revisited place System/34 programs for LAN use Replacing A Mini- 16P418 Software for ARCnet/NetWare 286 to Re-revisited ASK Manman on a VAX Micro To Mainframe 10P375 Comunications controllers or network gateways connect PCs to IBM 4381s Emulating Graphics 10P377 Persoft and Emu-Tek emulate Tektronix Terminals terminals and VT-240 running ReGIS Turbo Lan? 10P378 Run Advanced Netware/286 instead of AST PCnet II's software to gain speed Training A LAN 11P401 Selecting and training a network ad- Manager ministrator to run Corvus Omninet NETWORKS Distant Printers 11P401 Integrated Marketing Corp. converters instead of LAN to reach a printer AT Keylock 11P402 Disabling NumLock and resetting a PC AT running Advanced Netware/286 Running Scared 11P402 LANstations instead of PCs and pass- word protection for network security Zero Slot Frustration 11P404 Checking out COM ports with DEBUG before connecting RS-232 LANs Share That Laser 12P355 3Com's 3Server3 or Centram's TOPS let PCs and Macs share an Apple LaserWriter What's X.400 12P355 Consumers Software's The Network Courier conforms to the X.400 standard FAX Capabilities 12P355 Scanners can convert images on paper to digital form for fax machine use Growing Omninet 12P355 Expand an Omninet LAN with a repeater or more access cards in the server Laser Fonts 12P357 Using Novell's NetWare to download fonts under DOS to an AST printer Sharing A Bernoulli 13P455 Using Bernoulli on a 3Com EtherLink Box running Advanced Netware /286 NETWORKS Who Is The Keeper Of 13P455 Difference between implicit and ex- The Lock? plicit file/record locking Dialing Into The LAN 13P455 Remote and Meridian's Carbon Copy II let user dial into a 3Com network Rolling Out The Ring 13P456 Fiber-optic cable and Raycom's ex- tenders are best for long wiring runs What Is Dennis Doing? 13P456 Originator of Hayes modem working on ISDN digital telephone service LAN Gets The Time Of 14P467 Send date and time from server to Day IBM PC LAN nodes with SRVCLOCK and NETCLOCK Small LAN, Big 15P413 PC Focus or Paradox DBMS with Core Database International drives Improve PCnet 15P413 Possible problems that could be Peerformance hampering Orchid PCnet's speed Advanced Netware For 15P413 Use Santa Santa Clara's Limited Adv- PCnet anced Netware to improve PCnet per- formance Deskpro 386 Runs PC 15P415 IBM's PC LAN 1.10 on Compaq Deskpro Lan 386 and NETBIOS on XT 286 Grounded Cables 15P418 Grounding Etherlink cable on a 3Com network to a cold water pipe NETWORKS Waterpipe Ground 20P415 Danger of grounding a LAN cable to a Revisited pipe not bonded to main grounding Novell Error Message 17P495 Some programs need NETBIOS to estab- lish communications on Novell network Form Feeds In PC LAN 17P495 Stop IBM PC LAN from wasting paper when running dBase & Multimate Novell File 17P495 File fragmentation on server, using Fragmentation VRepair and CompSurf Symphony Smashes 17P495 Getting Symphony and IBM 5250 emulat- Emulator or to work together Arcnet Recon 17P496 Effects of recons (power up network station) on ARCnet, ProNET-10, and IBM Token Ring networks What To Wire With? 18P409 Twisted pair wiring, like Belden's, or optical fiber for connecting LAN's Ghost Story 18P413 RF noise from light dimmers and cable TV wires can affect StarLAN board Slow PC Lan 18P413 Whether IBM's new DOS and LAN program will speed up IBM's broadband LAN Mainframe Acronyms 19P537 Explanation of IBM 3270 CUT and DFT communication modes NETWORKS Two Station Lan? 19P537 Use ViaNet and StatLAN, 10-NET, or IBM PC LAN New Software Needed 19P537 Whether to buy network oriented soft- ware when installing new LAN Simple Connections 19P538 RS-232C LAN running EasyLAN easily copies files from one PC to another How Fast Is Fast? 19P540 Importance of network's file transfer speed compared with a CPU's or DOS's NETBIOS Programing 20P415 Starting IBM's PC LAN to initialize NETBIOS and NETBIOS INT interfaces Searching For 20P418 Tell DOS where COMMAND.COM is in COMMAND.COM workstations that boot off diskettes Creating A Compile 21P499 Perform time-consuming compiling on Server a network's remote job processor with RJ.BAT 1-2-3 Video Drivers 22P397 BASIC program to check for CGA, Mono, On A LAN Herc, Compaq, and EGA adapters Linking PC's And Minis 22P398 Ways to transfer data from IBM System 3X to 1-2-3 on PC NETWORKS Taxis OFF-Line 22P399 Eliminate RF interference on phone lines by passing cable through a ferrite toroid coil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS/2 Smooth Operation 13P157 Introduction to OS/2 Welcome To The 16P379 Difficulties in programing for OS/2 Post-DOS World and MS Windows envirionments OS/2 And The 80286 17P441 Advantages of the 80286's protected Protected Mode mode over the real mode used by DOS Intro To OS/2 Function 18P375 OS/2's CALL based API uses function Calls calls that mimic subroutines OS/2 Kernel Programing 19P483 Writing programs and converting old programs for the OS/2 Kernel OS/2 Program Entry 20P371 Code, data, and environment segments Conditions that give OS/2 programs information; Display environment with ENVIRON Upward Compatibility 21P435 FAPI and DOS Compatiblity Box make Through FAPI DOS and OS/2 programs compatible OS/2 Exploring The OS/2 22P357 Video interface works fast without Video Interface directly accessing the hardware; switch to 43 line mode with EGA43; popup alarm with WAKEUP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PASCAL USRWRITE.PAS 1P313 User defined I/O driver that allows any number of variables to be con- verted into a single string variable Error Beeper 1P313 Program that modifies TURBO.MSG so that it will beep if it hits a com- piler error Faking Out Turbo 1P314 Patch to allow compiling of multiple programs from a batch file Moving Files 1P315 Program to move a file from one dir- ectory to another Color Combos 1P316 Program that displays all the combi- nations of TextColor and TextBack- ground available in Turbo Pascal More Drives For Turbo 1P316 Patch to allow drive letters up to Z instead of Q Patching Palettes 3P341 Patches for Turbo to change display attributes used by editor and compil- er output Shiftkey Codes 3P342 Procedures to test status of 8 key- board shift keys A Pressing Concern 3P345 Wait-for-keypress procedure that works properly with {$U+} directive PASCAL Yes-No Patch 5P369 Patches to eliminate the "Include error messages?" for Turbo Pascal Versions 3.01A and 3.02A Large Scale Search 5P369 Functions to search a large character array (32K) for a particular string Interactive Input 5P372 How to get control over the char- acters Read receives using ConInPtr Easy Listing 5P376 To print a listing within Turbo, ^KW (write block to file) to LPT1 DOS Turbo 7P347 Programs to delete, copy or append a file without leaving the Turbo editor Missing Turbo 7P348 Procedures for get(f), f^(file ptr) Functions and File Info Block of text file Turbo Dating 7P352 Procedure to determine day of week for any date from 1600 to 4000 I/O Choice 9P385 Procedures for sending output to the device of your choice Determining Disk 9P385 Procedure to determine the amount of Space of free space left on disk BasData 9P386 BASDATA.PAS, PASDATA.PAS make BASIC and Turbo programs for .COM files PASCAL Reaching The 11P405 Procedure to find the environment Environment string anywhere on the path Finding Yourself 11P407 Programs Self and DOSVersion show how a program can locate itself and its files Reviving Ctrl-C 11P410 CTRLC.PAS lets the Ctrl-C program aborter work with I/O redirection The Root Of The Matter 13P461 Find integer roots of real numbers with ROOTDEMO.PAS and function EXPLNPOWER Read-Only Reset 13P463 Open read-only files for reading with procedure ResetRO Forcing A Reboot 13P464 End a program with a forced reboot with procedures for reset/reboot Label Maker 13P464 Read and change a disk's volume label with VOLUME.PAS Beeper 15P421 Patching TURBO.COM to beep at end of each compile Unusual COM Patch 15P421 Patch TURBO.COM to enter as command line parameters, Yes/No to error messages and file to be compiled Fakemain 15P424 Making Turbo save programs automatic- ally before compiling them PASCAL Preview 15P424 Allow alternate input types by read- ing, but not removing keypresses Parse Trick 15P426 Technique to parse a string into sub- strings or words separated by blanks EGA Pallette 16P407 Select/display all EGA colors Handling Run-Time 16P408 Procedures for trapping run-time Errors errors without exiting Trapping I/O Errors 16P411 Procedures TRAPON and TRAPOFF enable amd disable floating point error traps LPT2 Support 18P401 How to write to default & nondefault printer port Redirection 19P520 Demo of Turbo Pascal I/O redirection Keyboard Stuffing 19P520 Execute a command or program after Turbo Pascal ends with STUFFER.PAS Optimizing Turbo 20P331 Techniques to speed up programs and Pascal: A Primer reduce code size PASCAL Simple Timer 20P332 Measure elapsed time with procedure TIMER Sieve of Erathosthenes 20P347 Compute all prime numbers < 1000 with DOSIEVE.PAS Checking For Files 20P406 Test for read-only, hidden, and system files with function EXIST Faster Replaces 20P409 How to not display all replaces during global find and replace Comma 21P485 Add comma formatting to real numbers with function COMMA Banner 21P487 Print large character banners up to 255 characters with BANNER.PAS Handles 22P388 Keep up to 255 files open with procedure FILE_HANDLE_ZAP PASCAL Brightening 22P388 Enable high intensity background Backgrounds colors with procedure SetBlinkBit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POWERBASE Power Base Space 12P365 How to remove blank spaces left by deleted records ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRINTERS Low Tech 1P320 Cover paper out photocell detector with white paper to prevent black line on back of paper from indicating the printer is out of paper Printer Control With 2P285 Place control codes in notepad file, Sidekick mark control codes and print marked block Printing EGA Graphics 2P299 Print 640 by 350 graphics with resid- ent EGAGRAF.COM PrtSc With Form Feed 5P378 Add FF to Print Screen if Right Shift key is used with FFEED.COM Using The Tandy Daisy 5P388 Additional methods to prevent double II line feeds (Oct 14, 1986, Pg 340) Print Screen Screener 7P355 Resident utility PRT2SCR.COM to send printer output to screen rather than printer Envelopes With Tractors 8P332 Post-Its can attach paper to envelope for easier printing Swapping Printers 9P404 Switch between two printers connected to LPT1 & LPT2 that must have same LPT1 with PRNSWAP.COM Correction To 9P404 13P486 Several lines of code deleted PRINTERS Set Printer Defaults 10P400 Reseting the IBM Proprinter to a "power up state" Printer Master 15P433 PRCODER.BAT or PRCODER,BAS creates PRCODE.COM that sends user defined escape codes to printers Banner Occasions 19P519 Create and print with BANNER.BAS Banner 21P487 Print large character banners up to 255 characters with BANNER.PAS Printer Ports 21P491 How DOS and BIOS identify the names and addresses of printer ports; toggle between LPT1 and LPT2 with PRNSWAP.COM Capturing Your Printer 22P341 Redirect printer output from program Output and PrtSc to a file ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROKEY Prokey, The CPA 4P308 Use Prokey macros to enter frequently used account numbers and vendor names ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITY Security Buffer 9P399 Permanently wipe out deleted files with WIPEOUT.BAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIDEKICK Versatile Notepad 4P308 Use notepad for a pop-up chart of accounts Sidekick Alert 7P362 Patch to fix calculator divide over- flow bug Sidekick Index Cards 10P382 Calendar/Appointment utility can be used as index card file system Two-Monitor SK 14P475 How to run SK on one monitor and another program on a second display Moving With Sidekick 19P509 Transfer names and phone numbers to spreadsheets EGA Graphics & 20P400 How to clean up Word's, Reflex's, or Sidekick Prodesign's EGA screen after using Sidekick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUND DOS Music Generator 8P297 Compose and play tunes on PC within DOS with PLAY.COM Down With The Din 9P407 Lower the PC speaker volume by muff- ling or connecting a resistor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STORAGE Hard Disk Write 1P319 A drive C and above hard disk write Protection protector with PROTECT.COM Playing With Fire 3P348 How to low level format hard disks used with Western Digital controller Hard Disk Partitioning 4P317 Notes on partitioning disks for non DOS operating systems with FDISK Disk Drive Turnoff 5P377 Turn off diskette drive motor much quicker with FASTOFF.COM Why It Doesn't Add Up 6P335 How disk cluster size affects storage space, how to reduce cluster size on disks >10MB using DOS 2.X by using DOS 3.X instead How To Handle Your 11P199 Tips on organizing and operating Hard Disk hard disks Severly Warped 13P471 Salvage warped floppies by installing in new jackets Dual Formats 13P486 Improbability of formating two disk- ettes simultaneously Format Protection 15P434 Rename FORMAT.COM to protect against hard disk wipeouts Fast Server Storage 16P417 Fastest disks are BatRAM and HC40, fastest controllers use ESDI (10Mhz) STORAGE Swapping Diskettes 17P487 Copying files between a DRIVER.SYS logical drive and a floppy disk Adding Logical Drives 17P487 Copying files between two 1.2MB disks; syntax for DRIVER.SYS Limits To Backup 17P491 Dealing with the 223 file limit in 1.2MB diskette root directory Drive Specs 19P501 Report the status of bytes, clusters, and sectors on drive with DRVST.COM Driving Range 20P385 Return highest installed drive as ERRORLEVEL with GETLAST.COM Watching Hidden Disks 19P528 Blink a symbol on corner of screen during disk accesses with DISKLITE Formatting Diskettes 20P411 Explanation of FORMAT's & CHKDSK's "available bytes" and "bytes free" messages Parking Hard Disks 22P394 Safely park heads on any hard disk with PCPARK.COM Speeding Up Disk 22P395 Diskette drive speedup programs will Drives not damage drive but may increase data errors STORAGE Magnetic Encounters 22P396 Effect of magnetic fields on floppies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPERCALC Super Mouse 5P364 Changes required to make the Micro- soft Mouse 1-2-3 program work with SuperCalc4 Graphing With 13P449 Print drafts of graphs on printer Supercalc in single density to save time Determining Contents 17P452 Searching for quote marks in data- bases and formating cells Suspending SuperCalc 19P495 {SUSPEND} macro command temporarily Macros stops macro execution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPERKEY Superkey Disk Format 12P363 Superkey macro set makes it easy to format a large number of diskettes Superkey Bug 12P364 Bug in macro editor eats up '<' character when you save macro Self-Management 20P393 Macro that saves changed macros under the original file name ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPHONY Quick Graphs 2P282 Use DOS GRAPHICS.COM instead of .PIC file to print graphs Simplifying Settings 2P283 Window settings (column width over- rides, hidden columns) use extra memory when creating new windows that do not require these settings Variable Addresses In 5P363 Formulas that create macro statements Macros using indirect addressing Printing Sequential 9P372 Macro to provide unsupervised sequen- Files tial printing of multiple files Puzzler 13P449 Inconsistancy in @IF function when summing real numbers Easy Range Deletion 14P461 Macro to delete a range name from a table of range names SYMPHONY Running DOS Under 15P406 Running other programs and executing Symphony DOS commands from within Symphony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYSTEMS Diagnostic Shortcut 1P319 Bypass disk drive tests on IBM Diag- nostics program by putting write protect tabs on diskettes Memory Checker 1P323 Find amount of free RAM available with MEMORY.COM Better Setter 3P347 Set IBM AT on-board clock independ- ently of setup diskette with SETCLOCK.COM Memory Above 640K 7P365 Comment on AT extended memory and Lotus/Intel/Microsoft expanded memory System Board Analyzer 8P281 Display the status of PC configurat- ion with STATUS.COM Memory Eater 9P396 Remove available RAM with EAT.COM to determine if program will run with smaller amount of RAM The XT Eighth Slot 9P407 Use only boards specifically designed for it Waiting For DOS 10P390 Perform a operation at a specified time with WAIT.BAT, WAITTIL1.BAS and WAITTIL2.BAS AT Or Turbo XT? 10P398 80286s have advantages in speed and future DOS compatibility over 8088s Switching To Turbo 10P400 Writing a program to activate Ctrl- Alt-Plus and switch into turbo mode SYSTEMS Speed Swapping 16P413 Switch speeds on Turbo XT with FAST.COM, SLOW.COM and SWITCHSP.COM PC AT Lifesaver 11P414 Save the ATs configuration info with CMOSPUT.COM and CMOSGET.COM Microprocessor 11P425 Data bits and address bits in Intel, Addressing Zilog and Motorola microproceesors Tech Info 19P532 Phone number to obtain IBM technical publications is (800) IBM-PCTB Defective 8088 Chips 21P492 Replace early chips that allowed interrupts after changing the SS register ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIME Playing The Dating 3P323 Insert date, time stamps in files and Game spreadsheets with TIMEKEY.COM Logging System Use 10P383 Norton Utilities TIMEMARK lets you create a hard disk system log Your Everyday Reminder 12P331 Alert you to scheduled appointments with REMINDER.COM A Date With DOS 12P379 File and retrieve appointments from a schedule with APP.BAT Current Events 17P463 Get access to time and date in batch files with CURRENT.BAT & READDATE.BAT Clockwork Execution 20P389 Execute a program at boot-up once a week or month with DATECHEK.COM which generates ERRORLEVEL for batch file ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WINDOWS Integrating Programs 15P445 Using Framework or Microsoft Windows to combine worksheet and text files ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORD (MS) Hiding With Style 4P301 Using style sheets to separate dif- ferent types of hidden text Line Graphics With 6P319 How to print line graphic symbol Word ASCII 196 (horz line) Spelling By Thesaurus 8P332 Thesaurus facility makes a handy spell checker Debugging Word Mail- 10P383 How to test mail merge more Merge efficiently SideKick And MS Word 12P364 Reset graphics mode before calling up SideKick Drop Caps With Word 14P481 Print a drop cap for the first letter of a paragraph Running Programs From 14P481 Load a second COMMAND.COM to run Word other programs within Word Improving Word Mail 18P392 Merge or print data files begining Merge at any record Double Conversion 18P396 Convert WordPerfect files to MS Word via WordStar Directory Dictatorship 19P509 Give a different default directory when loading Word WORD (MS) Blinking Cursor 20P393 Patch to keep mouse cursor from blinking in text mode Renumbering Footnotes 20P399 Automatically renumber manually numbered footnotes Checking Single Words 21P477 Use MicroSoft spellcheck utility WORDFIND.COM Envelopes With Style 22P384 Use style sheets to print addresses on envelopes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORD An S/R WordPerfect 6P319 Macro that performs multiple file PERFECT global search and replace operation WP File Handling 6P320 Multiple mass copy, delete, print Feature files in directory list Speeding Up Word 6P320 How to use Wordstar control codes Perfect with WordPerfect Eight Ways To Improve 7P232 Macros for city, state, zip; letter WordPerfect skeleton; letter end; envelope addr- essing; document printing; current page printing, right order laserjet printing Batting Out Boxes 8P325 Use WP line drawing function to create ANSI graphics for menus More On Letter Formats 10P381 Save WP standard letter formats as files rather than as macros Renumbering In WP 10P381 Use paragraph or endnote numbering to renumber WP lists Macro Library 12P365 How to give WP macros names and put Directory in own directory Where Was I? 14P475 Macro to find your place in a WP file you have exited Take Me To Your Leader 16P395 Add leaders (row of dots) to any right aligned text WORD EditMac 16P395 Use Prokey to edit/maintain WP macros PERFECT Lcolumn 16P399 Macro to display text at true left margin with WP 4.2 Paginating Footers 16P399 Auto number pages in a "Page X of XX" footer Reverse 16P401 Macro tells number of pages to be printed in reverse order for lasers Macro Calculations 16P402 Macro to insert math calculations into documents Scrolling Along 16P402 Add Wordstar type continuous or auto scroll functions List Insertion 16P403 Putting a list of files from WP's manager into a text file Helpscrn 16P403 Macro help system runs macros from help menus Memomaker 16P405 Macro to call up MEMO file for quick notes Spaced Out 17P469 Macro to insert two blank spaces at the end of sentences WORD Show Me A Break 17P470 Macro to show visible page breaks on PERFECT the display Page Merging 17P473 Create indexes that refer to records rather than printed pages Ruler 17P474 Macro to display a ruler line at the bottom of the screen Mac Library 17P474 Create sets of replacable macros with WP Library Double Conversion 18P396 Convert MS Word files to WordPerfect via WordStar Multiple Macros 19P510 Get more macros by storing them in different directories Transposition 19P513 Macro to reverse order of of letters in words Format 22P383 Macro to let you pick the format and name the document latter Other Key 22P383 Alt and Ctrl alphanumeric key equiv- valents for Function keys WORD Underlining In WP 22P384 Macro that replaces underlines with PERFECT code that can be transmitted by modem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORD PROC A Command You Can 2P273 PARSE.COM counts/reports the number Count On of characters, words, sentences and readability (Fog Index) of an ASCII text file of up to 64,000 bytes Running PARSE From 9P16 How to make PARSE.COM compatible with Windows MS Windows Graphic Shortcut 4P304 Make outline boxes with underline and vertical bars keys, then use search and replace to insert ASCII charact- ers 186 and 205 Better Use For 4P304 Use as appointment calendar Outliners Lightning Fast Con- 9P393 Convert text files to all upper or version lower case with UPPER.COM or LOWER.COM Changing The Tab Width 16P413 Change tabs in files to four spaces instead of eight with TAB4.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORDSTAR Using SUBST With 22P336 How to use subdirectories with WordStar WordStar 3.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- XYWRITE Editing XYWRITE III 18P396 Easily editing footnotes that have Footnotes already been written -------------------------------------------------------------------------------