Changing defaults in Lotus WordPro 97

To alter the unit of measure that WordPro uses, select File, User Setup, Word Pro Preferences, select the General tab and from the Measure in list box select the unit of measure you want to use and click OK to finish.
Like most word processing packages, in WordPro all new documents are based on a SmartMaster and in most cases this will be the default SmartMaster default.mwp (you will find this in your LOTUS\SMASTERS\WORDPRO directory). This SmartMaster contains the standard layout for a WordPro page and if you alter it then you'll alter the layout for all new documents created using this SmartMaster. To alter these default settings create a new document based on the default SmartMaster, make your changes and save the file over the top of the existing SmartMaster. Alternately you can simply open default.mwp itself, alter it and then save your changes.

Changes you can make to the default settings this way include paper size, margins, tabs, Default text font and language. Most alterations can be made by right-clicking on the editing screen and selecting Text Properties or Page Properties depending on the alterations required.