You can find and replace “non standard characters” in Word 3.0X. Here are the steps required:
• type the desired character and highlight it.
• click the rectangular box in the lower left corner of the screen.
• the ASCII number for the character you highlighted appears; remember it.
• open the Find or Change dalog box, type caret (^) followed by the ASCII number just noted.
• now continue the Find or Change process as you normally would.
Some examples of ASCII numbers are: bullet = 165, asterisk = 42 and so forth.
To leave a specific amount of blank space in Word 3.0X, invoke Insert Graphic under the Edit menu. Click the cursor to the left of the blinking graphics bar. Grab the bottom center of the resulting blank box. Pull or push it, watching the figure which appears in the lower left corner of the screen. Stop when the figure is exactly the height you want for the blank space. (Thanks MIAMUG of Michigan for the last two hints.)
If you have a keypad and use Word 3.0X, be sure to take advantage of all of the added keys. The up, down, right, left arrows move you forward, backward, up and down the page A character or line at a time.
Add the Command key and you get a word back and forth or a paragraph up and down.
Add the Shift key instead and you get selected characters one at a time back and forth, or from the insertion point up or down to the same point in the next line above or below.
Add both keys and you select word by word right and left, or paragraph by paragraph up and down.
You can't count words in Word 3.0X. But you can count characters and you can count spaces. Either count will let you make an accurate estimate of the number of words.
The character count appears in the lower left corner or the screen immediately after a Save. Divide this number by 6.35 for an approximate word count. Words average a bit over five letters and the space following each word is also included in the character count. Thus we get 6.35 as a pretty fair divisor.
To count words using the space count, Open Change under the Search menu. Type one space, then tab and type one space. You have told Word to change each single space to a single space. Word dutifully makes the "change" and informs you that "X" number of changes have been made. That is your approximate word count. Cute, huh?
Do you ever need to hide a column of figures in Excel? Select the column and give it “0” width under the Format menu. To get your invisible column back, drag from the column before the “0” width column through the column after it. Now specify an appropriate column width, and the invisible column will reappear. Now you can adjust the widths of the columns individually to suit your taste. (Thanks, MIAMUG of Michigan.)
Why do Excel documents get smaller when you use Save As…? Because the Save As… document has no “Revert” information in its memory. It doesn’t need it because no changes have been made to the new Save As… document yet. There is no “previous version” to revert to. As soon as you make a change to this new version, a Revert file will begin building and taking up memory space in your Excel document.
To arrange documents/files in Open… dialog boxes, here is the hierarchal order of some common characters: space, !, #, $, %, (, ), +, -, `, {, |, }, ~, ¢, ¶ and so on. To get a leading space, place your cursor in front of the first character of the filename. Type any character followed by a space. Now your title reads x Title. Next, place the cursor immediately following the ‘x’ and backspace it out. Your title is now preceded by a space, and will appear in Open… dialog boxes atop anything but a file titled with two or more leading spaces.
People keep calling me asking about hooking up their Macs to wierd printers. If you have that problem, get in touch with someone who provides the necessary cables and interface. Try GDT Softworks (800)-663-MAC; Orange Micro (714-779-2772); or SoftStyle (800)-367-5600).
If a Sony disk goes bad, not to worry. There is a lifetime warranty on 3.5 disks. Send it to Sony Corporation of America, 1 Sony Drive, Park Ridge, NY 07656, Mail Drop 3-1. It takes three weeks to get your replacement disk.
Mac II owners running PageMaker should work in black and white until the last minute, then switch over to color for any necessary color work. PageMaker runs a lot faster in black and white.
There is an INIT named Aask which is designed to load first and permit you the option of selecting exactly which INITs will be loaded and which will not.
