Ultimate Power Tips 1.0A (c) 1992 Scanlon Enterprises Table of Contents This is a guide for your convience. Each entry in the Ultimate Power Tips, has a title. These titles are list here, along with the catagory, that title appears in. Since there was NOT room on a line to include the title, plus the full catagory name, we have used short abbreviated catagory names. The following is a cross reference to those shortened names. Full Catagory Name Abbreviation Used Roll Your Own Utilities Script Database Tips Database DOS and Batch File Tips DOS Spreadsheet Tips Spread Viruses and Other Matters Virus Windows Tips Windows Wordprocessing Tips WP Printer, Modem and Other Tips Misc. We have included TWO table of content sections, one will be by catagory, the other by title . Table of Contents by Catagory Title Catagory Get Available Memory Quickly Script Num Lock Off Script Faster Repeat Keys Script Lost Cursor Recovery Script Comparing The Size of Two Files Script Combining the DOS Environment, With Keyboard Input Script The Forgotten Rename Feature Script Enhance Your dBase Logic Field Usage Database Add Printer Codes for Better-Looking dBase Output Database Paradox Shortcut, Pick Your Own Editor Database dBase & Foxbase do Multiline Reporting Database From a Table to a Form Database Making a Form Your Own Database Copy a Calculated Field in Paradox Database Multi-Config for Q&A Database Getting the Right Record With DBase III Plus Database Duplicating Paradox Entries Database Effective Data Base Reports Database Naming Reports As You Print Them Database Reporting From a Paradox Query Database Getting More Memory From DOS DOS Smoother DOS DOS Easy Disk Transfer DOS Batch File, Know Thy Self DOS The Invisible DOS TYPE Command DOS Use Your Computer as a Typewriter DOS Protecting System Files From Accidental Deletion DOS Easy On-Line Reminders DOS Determining Your Rom Bios Date DOS A Quicker Exit DOS The Shell in the Shell DOS Avoiding Double DOS Prompts DOS Where's That Ram DOS DOS FILES and BUFFERS CONFIG.SYS commands DOS ATTRIB to the Rescue! DOS A Different DOS Backup System, for FREE DOS Stop Struggling With The DOS Format Command DOS FREE File Viewer From DOS DOS Glean More Ram For Your Applications DOS FOR POWER! DOS Batch Files That Count DOS DOS 5.0 CHKDSK Meanings DOS Emergency Disks DOS This will lowlevel format an XT machine. DOS Directory Navigation Shortcuts DOS Batch File CALLS Using DOS Before Version 3.3 DOS Nested Batch Files Save Time DOS Fast Navigation in 1-2-3 Spread Fast Navigation in 1-2-3 Spread Highlight Key Data in 1-2-3 Spread To Cell and Back with 1-2-3 Spread Peruse and Use Faraway 1-2-3 Cells Spread Revealing 1-2-3 Formulas Spread 1-2-3 Copy Controls Cursors Spread List 1-2-3 Named Ranges Spread Find Optimal Solutions With What-If Solver Spread Spruce Up Your Charts With Text and Labels Spread Getting Weekdays into Your Spreadsheet Spread Smart Consolidations Spread Speed Up Your Macros With ECHO Spread Getting the Right Results With Visual Rounding Spread Quick Totals for 1-2-3 Spread Check Behind Lotus Express Spread Streamline Excel Macros With Subroutines Spread Ranking Values With Excel Spread Setting Date Formats in Worksheet Headers and Footers Spread The Last Day of the Month Spread Has Your Computer Been Attacked by a Virus ? Virus Save yourself a possible repair bill, with this tip. Virus Before You Take That Dead Computer in to the Shop Virus Save yourself an embarrassment and some heavy fines. Virus Software Police Virus A sample Corporate Employee Software Agreement Virus Having The Right System Windows Printing Windows 3.x Colors in Black and White Windows Choose your Files in Windows 3.0 Windows Garbage in, Garbage out with Windows 3.0 Windows Using Windows' Task List for Easy Application Switching Windows Preserving Your Windows 3.x Desktop Windows Browsing Windows 3.x Directories With File Search Windows Faster Disk Copy in Windows Windows Getting Past the Windows 3.x Logo Windows Shape up Those Windows Group Icons Windows Self-Stick Wallpaper for Windows 3.x Windows DOS Windows Front and Center Windows Switching Screen Modes in Windows 3.x Windows Nice Moves in Windows 3.0 Windows Avoiding The "EMM386 Exception 56" Error Windows Are You Too Slow For Windows? Windows Printing Woes Windows Using Dot Matrix Printers in Landscape Mode Windows Unwanted WIN.INI Settings Windows ClipBoard Saves Windows Quick Task Switching in Windows Windows DOS and WINDOWS Printer Battles Windows 300 DPI Printing From Windows Windows Smartdrive Limits Windows Windows Doesn't Use All of Your Expanded Memory Windows Multiple Display Drivers For Windows Windows Adding an Icon to SysEdit Windows Windows NotePad Searches and Replaces Windows Faster Windows Loading, Without the Logo Windows Creating High-Impact Documents and Presentations WP Desk Top Publishing Definitions WP Tag WordPerfect Files WP Sneaky Deletions in Word WP Better Printer Control With XyWrite III WP Applications Load Files Automatically WP Quick Text Moves in WordPerfect WP Repeat Macros in WordPerfect WP Correct Your WordStar Dictionary WP Speedy Text Moves Between WordStar Windows WP WordStar Macros at Your Fingertips WP Draw WordPerfect Lines Last WP Handy WordPerfect 5.0 Directory Lists WP WordPerfect Automatic Footnote Creation WP Custom Footnote and Endnote Text WP Print Odd or Even Pages WP Finagling Fonts in MicroSoft Word WP Inserting Spaces Using WordPerfect WP Index concordance Macro WP Index and Table of Contents Macro for Word WP Inserting Captions in Ventura an PageMaker WP Importing 1-2-3 Worksheets in WordStar WP Case Shifting in WordPerfect WP Finding a File Using Word WP More Ways to Delete With WordPerfect WP Synonym Searches With Word WP WordPerfect Thesaurus Navigation WP Flip-Flop WordStar Menus WP Repeating Text in WordPerfect 5.0 WP Dating Letters Automatically WP Backtrack Dialog Boxes With Ventura Publisher WP One Step to PageMaker and File WP Printing Overlays With PageMaker WP Menus Without a Mouse in WordPerfect WP Restoring Normal Font in Word For Windows WP Snappy Quarters and Halves for WordPerfect WP Shrinking Your PageMaker Files WP Case of the Disappearing Word 5.0 Headers WP The Ventura Dialog Box Two-Step WP No-Sweat WordPerfect Line-Height Adjustment WP Fast WordPerfect Dot Leaders WP Watch Those WordStar Wild-Card Deletes WP DisplayWrite Text Searches With Norton Utilities WP Revealing Tab Settings in WordPerfect WP Quick Bullets for WordPerfect WP Scaling Bit Mapped Graphics in Ventura WP Print a Block WP Vertical Centering in Word WP Better Pop Up Calculator WP Useful Block Commands WP PageMaker Does Large Fonts WP Documents in Living Color WP System Security Misc. External Modems Light Up Misc. Power Definitions Misc. Money-Saving Protocols Misc. Now You See It With Procomm Misc. Procomm's Handy On-Line Log Misc. Speedy Norton Menus Misc. From the Oven to the Laser Misc. Norton MCI From Anywhere Misc. LaserJet Toner Down but NOT out Misc. Easy Exchange Between Compuserve and MCI Mail Misc. Crosstalk's Screen Snapshots Misc. Run Programs Full Screen Under Desqview Misc. Speeding Modem Dialing Through Office PBX's Misc. Swap Mouse Buttons Misc. Easy LaserJet Printing With Norton Utilities Misc. Chameleon PaintBrush Misc. Modem Trick, Don't Compress Compressed Files Misc. DeskJet 80 Column Help Misc. ProComm and Auto Scripts Misc. Pascal TypeCasting Misc. The Traveling Laptop Misc. Alternate Power Misc. Table of Contents by Title Title Catagory 1-2-3 Copy Controls Cursors Spread 300 DPI Printing From Windows Windows A Different DOS Backup System, for FREE DOS A Quicker Exit DOS A sample Corporate Employee Software Agreement Virus ATTRIB to the Rescue! DOS Add Printer Codes for Better-Looking dBase Output Database Adding an Icon to SysEdit Windows Alternate Power Misc. Applications Load Files Automatically WP Are You Too Slow For Windows? Windows Avoiding Double DOS Prompts DOS Avoiding The "EMM386 Exception 56" Error Windows Backtrack Dialog Boxes With Ventura Publisher WP Batch File CALLS Using DOS Before Version 3.3 DOS Batch File, Know Thy Self DOS Batch Files That Count DOS Before You Take That Dead Computer in to the Shop Virus Better Pop Up Calculator WP Better Printer Control With XyWrite III WP Browsing Windows 3.x Directories With File Search Windows Case Shifting in WordPerfect WP Case of the Disappearing Word 5.0 Headers WP Chameleon PaintBrush Misc. Check Behind Lotus Express Spread Choose your Files in Windows 3.0 Windows ClipBoard Saves Windows Combining the DOS Environment, With Keyboard Input Script Comparing The Size of Two Files Script Copy a Calculated Field in Paradox Database Correct Your WordStar Dictionary WP Creating High-Impact Documents and Presentations WP Crosstalk's Screen Snapshots Misc. Custom Footnote and Endnote Text WP DOS 5.0 CHKDSK Meanings DOS DOS FILES and BUFFERS CONFIG.SYS commands DOS DOS Windows Front and Center Windows DOS and WINDOWS Printer Battles Windows Dating Letters Automatically WP Desk Top Publishing Definitions WP DeskJet 80 Column Help Misc. Determining Your Rom Bios Date DOS Directory Navigation Shortcuts DOS DisplayWrite Text Searches With Norton Utilities WP Documents in Living Color WP Draw WordPerfect Lines Last WP Duplicating Paradox Entries Database Easy Disk Transfer DOS Easy Exchange Between Compuserve and MCI Mail Misc. Easy LaserJet Printing With Norton Utilities Misc. Easy On-Line Reminders DOS Effective Data Base Reports Database Emergency Disks DOS Enhance Your dBase Logic Field Usage Database External Modems Light Up Misc. FOR POWER! DOS FREE File Viewer From DOS DOS Fast Navigation in 1-2-3 Spread Fast Navigation in 1-2-3 Spread Fast WordPerfect Dot Leaders WP Faster Disk Copy in Windows Windows Faster Repeat Keys Script Faster Windows Loading, Without the Logo Windows Finagling Fonts in MicroSoft Word WP Find Optimal Solutions With What-If Solver Spread Finding a File Using Word WP Flip-Flop WordStar Menus WP From a Table to a Form Database From the Oven to the Laser Misc. Garbage in, Garbage out with Windows 3.0 Windows Get Available Memory Quickly Script Getting More Memory From DOS DOS Getting Past the Windows 3.x Logo Windows Getting Weekdays into Your Spreadsheet Spread Getting the Right Record With DBase III Plus Database Getting the Right Results With Visual Rounding Spread Glean More Ram For Your Applications DOS Handy WordPerfect 5.0 Directory Lists WP Has Your Computer Been Attacked by a Virus ? Virus Having The Right System Windows Highlight Key Data in 1-2-3 Spread Importing 1-2-3 Worksheets in WordStar WP Index and Table of Contents Macro for Word WP Index concordance Macro WP Inserting Captions in Ventura an PageMaker WP Inserting Spaces Using WordPerfect WP LaserJet Toner Down but NOT out Misc. List 1-2-3 Named Ranges Spread Lost Cursor Recovery Script Making a Form Your Own Database Menus Without a Mouse in WordPerfect WP Modem Trick, Don't Compress Compressed Files Misc. Money-Saving Protocols Misc. More Ways to Delete With WordPerfect WP Multi-Config for Q&A Database Multiple Display Drivers For Windows Windows Naming Reports As You Print Them Database Nested Batch Files Save Time DOS Nice Moves in Windows 3.0 Windows No-Sweat WordPerfect Line-Height Adjustment WP Norton MCI From Anywhere Misc. Now You See It With Procomm Misc. Num Lock Off Script One Step to PageMaker and File WP PageMaker Does Large Fonts WP Paradox Shortcut, Pick Your Own Editor Database Pascal TypeCasting Misc. Peruse and Use Faraway 1-2-3 Cells Spread Power Definitions Misc. Preserving Your Windows 3.x Desktop Windows Print Odd or Even Pages WP Print a Block WP Printing Overlays With PageMaker WP Printing Windows 3.x Colors in Black and White Windows Printing Woes Windows ProComm and Auto Scripts Misc. Procomm's Handy On-Line Log Misc. Protecting System Files From Accidental Deletion DOS Quick Bullets for WordPerfect WP Quick Task Switching in Windows Windows Quick Text Moves in WordPerfect WP Quick Totals for 1-2-3 Spread Ranking Values With Excel Spread Repeat Macros in WordPerfect WP Repeating Text in WordPerfect 5.0 WP Reporting From a Paradox Query Database Restoring Normal Font in Word For Windows WP Revealing 1-2-3 Formulas Spread Revealing Tab Settings in WordPerfect WP Run Programs Full Screen Under Desqview Misc. Save yourself a possible repair bill, with this tip. Virus Save yourself an embarrassment and some heavy fines. Virus Scaling Bit Mapped Graphics in Ventura WP Self-Stick Wallpaper for Windows 3.x Windows Setting Date Formats in Worksheet Headers and Footers Spread Shape up Those Windows Group Icons Windows Shrinking Your PageMaker Files WP Smart Consolidations Spread Smartdrive Limits Windows Smoother DOS DOS Snappy Quarters and Halves for WordPerfect WP Sneaky Deletions in Word WP Software Police Virus Speed Up Your Macros With ECHO Spread Speeding Modem Dialing Through Office PBX's Misc. Speedy Norton Menus Misc. Speedy Text Moves Between WordStar Windows WP Spruce Up Your Charts With Text and Labels Spread Stop Struggling With The DOS Format Command DOS Streamline Excel Macros With Subroutines Spread Swap Mouse Buttons Misc. Switching Screen Modes in Windows 3.x Windows Synonym Searches With Word WP System Security Misc. Tag WordPerfect Files WP The Forgotten Rename Feature Script The Invisible DOS TYPE Command DOS The Last Day of the Month Spread The Shell in the Shell DOS The Traveling Laptop Misc. The Ventura Dialog Box Two-Step WP This will lowlevel format an XT machine. DOS To Cell and Back with 1-2-3 Spread Unwanted WIN.INI Settings Windows Use Your Computer as a Typewriter DOS Useful Block Commands WP Using Dot Matrix Printers in Landscape Mode Windows Using Windows' Task List for Easy Application Switching Windows Vertical Centering in Word WP Watch Those WordStar Wild-Card Deletes WP Where's That Ram DOS Windows Doesn't Use All of Your Expanded Memory Windows Windows NotePad Searches and Replaces Windows WordPerfect Automatic Footnote Creation WP WordPerfect Thesaurus Navigation WP WordStar Macros at Your Fingertips WP dBase & Foxbase do Multiline Reporting Database