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CRACKERJACK USER'S GUIDE

Section 3 - CJ_USER and CJ_SUP Toolbar Tools and Features

The CJ_USER Toolbar includes 14 special "User-Defined HTML Tag" Tools. These tools store whatever HTML tags you like. When clicked, the tools surround whatever text you've selected with your own HTML tag preferences. Each of the tools can be customized by selecting the Create Crackerjack Tool, described below.

The CJ_SUP Toolbar includes the Crackerjack Tools described below.

If your browser supports JavaScript, you can click on any of the tools on the CJ_SUP Toolbar above to move to the section which describes the tool. Regardless of whether your browser supports JavaScript or not, clicking any of the icons below will transport you back to the top of this page.

CJ_HTML Toolbar contains most of the HTML 2.0 tools and features

Create Crackerjack Tool

Store and change your own HTML tag preferences via the CREATE CRACKERJACK TOOL. Each time you select this tool, the 14 tools on the CJ_USER toolbar are updated to store and hold each of the 14 tag preferences you've entered in the CREATE CRACKERJACK TOOL dialog box.

If you don't wish to use the CJ_USER toolbar to insert your HTML tag preferences, you may enter any of the 14 tags you've chosen from the CREATE CRACKERJACK TOOL tool, itself.

This tool also invites you to change the toolbar button faces of the 14 CJ-User Toolbar tools quickly and whenever you wish. (This option is not supported in Office 97/Word 97. Dunno why.)

IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT ALTER THE POSITIONS OR CHANGE THE NAMES OF THE TOOLS ON THE CJ_USER TOOLBAR. The position and the name of the tool must not be changed if the Create Crackerjack Tool and the 14 customizable tools on the CJ_USER toolbar are to operate properly.

(In the CJ_HTML toolbar and the CJ_SUP toolbar, the tools can be transferred from one toolbar to the other, deleted entirely or changed in any way.)

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Insert Any Document Tool

Opens a dialog box listing all your drives and directories. Select any document, .DOC, .HTM or any other file extension. The tool will insert the file, check to see if it has been inserted properly. It will then place the cursor back at the original cursor location so that you can begin editing at that point.
In addition, if the file you selected is an HTML file, the Insert Any Document Tool will...

  • Replace the standard HTML paragraph marks with Word's paragraph marks.
  • Ask you if you would like the HTML tags to be displayed as red, hidden text and the URLs to be displayed as bright blue and underlined. If you choose "Yes", the tool will tint your tags.
You may insert multiple files into one Crackerjack document if you like.

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Auto HTML Start Tool

1. Presents a short series of dialog boxes which take you step by step through the creation of a basic HTML document by inserting the necessary beginning and ending codes, as well as the...

Title
Heading
Body
Background Color / Background Graphic
Text, Link, Visited Link, Active Link Colors and
Optional "Return to top" anchor tags
2. You're then invited to choose to

Type or copy and paste some text or
Insert a previously created file
If you choose the second option, the selected .DOC, .TXT or other file
will be automatically inserted between the beginning and ending codes.

The inserted file is then checked to make sure it has been installed properly. If the selected file is an HTML document, the HTML tags will be displayed as red, hidden text and the URLs will be displayed as bright blue and underlined. The file will also be checked for non-standard paragraph marks (not uncommon in HTML documents) and will replace those paragraph marks with standard Word paragraph marks.

3. Then...

Add whatever text you like, use Crackerjack's tools to insert whatever tags you want and click the Convert and Save Tool to produce a completed HTML document.

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Backgrounds and Colors Tool

This tool offers a wide selection of colors and also offers the option to enter your own. There are options for background colors or background graphics, as well as:

  • text color
  • link color
  • visited link color and
  • active link color
If you choose to enter your own custom colors and/or a background graphic, these custom settings will be stored and reappear in the custom selection sections of the toolÆs dialog box, so that you donÆt have to remember them or reenter them. The custom settings can be changed at any time and they take precedence over the 100 color options that are offered in each of the five dropdown boxes.

Color Tip: Keep in mind that some monitors only display a very limited number or colors. If your monitor displays 16 million colors, it's probably a good idea to view your page in a monitor which displays 256 colors (or less) before you install your Web page on a server for all the world to see. The graphics cards in an individual's computer can also dramatically affect the color tones he actually sees.

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Beginning Table Tag and Caption Tool

This tool offers options including:

  • Table Border
  • Width
  • Height
  • Cellpadding
  • Cellspacing and
  • Top and Bottom Caption options
You may enter your own custom tag preferences instead, if you wish.

<TABLE BORDER=2 CELLPADDING=2>
<CAPTION ALIGN=TOP This is my caption</CAPTION>
Raflag Agjdfg Bdfasfd Dfgsdgf Wefg Muchness
kdjglsdjfg sdfg dfg sdfgsdjhdfgsfgsdfgdfgsdfg 7
nmfghnsdfg asldj 956,893

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Two Word .DOC to HTML Table Tools

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From Word DOC table to HTML with the click of a Tool

Crackerjack converts non-nested Word tables of any length to HTML. Like Word itself, the program starts the conversion with the assumption that the tables have an equal number of columns in each row. Cell alignments are automatically calculated and the appropriate alignment tags are inserted. Table Headers are accommodated, too.

Each of the two table tools, when clicked, will first present the BEGINNING TABLE TAG AND CAPTION Tool's dialog box so that you can choose any special beginning table tag options you like. If you just want a standard <TABLE> tag, just click OK.

This tool converts ALL the tables within the .DOC to HTML.

This tool will convert the particular table your cursor is in.
You can select the entire table or just place your cursor anywhere inside the table to convert that table to HTML.

You can also use the BEGINNING TABLE TAG AND CAPTION Tool separately if you like.

DOC TO HTML TABLE CONVERSION: SOME OF THE PARTICULARS...

The Word .DOC to HTML TABLE TOOL checks to see whether you have entered any Word Table Headings in the first row of each table. If so it places <TH> and </TH> tags around the text in each table cell containing a Table Heading. The tool checks the alignment of each row. If each cell in the row is identically aligned, the tool inserts the tag, <TR ALIGN="left"> or <TR ALIGN="center"> or <TR ALIGN="right"> at the beginning of the row, then inserts the table data tags, <TD> and </TD> around the text in each cell in the row and enters the end of row tag, </TR>, at the end of the row.

If all the cells in the row were left aligned, the row would look like this:

<TR ALIGN=left><TD>text in first cell</TD> <TD>text in 2nd cell</TD> <TD>text in 3rd cell</TD></TR>

If the cells in the row are aligned differently, the tool enters tags that look like this:

<TR><TD ALIGN="left">text in first cell</TD> <TD ALIGN="center">text in 2nd cell</TD> <TD ALIGN="right">text in 3rd cell</TD></TR>

The DOC to HTML TABLE TOOL will not convert every possible configuration, but you can use the tool to create the basic structure and then add whatever combinations of tags you like (either before or after the final conversion process. For more information about creating unusual table configurations, you can find a good guide at http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/tables.html.

Pre Tool
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MAKE HIDDEN TOOL and MAKE UNHIDDEN TOOL

The names are not clever, but the macros may come in handy.

Centered, Bold and Italic Text

Three tools, one for CENTER, one for BOLD and one for ITALIC which each immediately insert the tags around any selection, are available on the Cj_Sup Toolbar. The tools are depicted immediately below. If there is no selected text, the beginning and ending codes will be inserted on each side of the cursor.

Inserts the <CENTER> tags.
Inserts the <B> tags.
Inserts the <I> tags.

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Font Sizes Tool

Enters your preference of FONT SIZE tags.

CONVERT SPECIAL CHARACTERS TOOL

Disabled in the demo version of the program. In the complete version, this tool converts the ISO Latin 1 Entities from .DOC to HTML. (Not all HTML browsers support these characters.)

CONVERT SPECIAL CHARACTERS FROM HTML TO .DOC TOOL

Disabled in the demo version of the program. In the complete version, this tool converts the HTML sequences into their Word .DOC equivalents.

Word for Windows supports some special characters that Word for Macintosh does not. (A table with the entries is provided in the CJ.DOC file in the complete version of the program.)

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Removing Hidden Codes

While working on your document you might wish to add or delete some HTML tags.
Two tools facilitate the removal of HTML codes.

Toolbar tools for each of the Zap macros have been included in the CJ_SUP toolbar.

Disabled in the demo version of the program. In the complete version, the ZAP CODES FROM DOCUMENT TOOL, when selected, deletes all the HTML tags from the entire document. When you select this menu item, a message will ask you if you're sure you wish to continue (It deletes all brackets and all text in between the beginning and the ending bracket, whether the text is hidden or unhidden.

Disabled in the demo version of the program. In the complete version, the ZAP CODES FROM THE SELECTION TOOL, when selected, deletes the HTML tags from whatever text you have selected. (Like the other Zap macro, it deletes all brackets and all text in between the beginning and the ending bracket, whether the text is hidden or unhidden.

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Remove Extraneous Paragraph Marks

This tool provides a quick way to delete any empty paragraph marks which might have been imported with an HTML document. (Just a convenience. It doesn't harm anything to leave 'em where they be.)

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