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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: ClarisWorks -- two bizarre hints (bugs)
- Message-ID: <VeywwB11w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 17:00:06 GMT
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- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- Well, I've found a couple more bugs in ClarisWorks. These may only apply to
- the International version.
-
- Firstly, the manual says that you can save stationery documents in
- System Folder:Claris so that you don't have to set up page sizes and stuff
- every time you start a new document. It claims that the documents should be
- called "ClarisWorks WP Prefs", "ClarisWorks SS Prefs" and so on.
-
- I tried this, and it didn't work. Eventually I got fed up with ClarisWorks
- defaulting to Imperial measurements (my System is set up to be metric-only),
- and I went browsing with ResEdit. I discovered that the files should in fact
- be called "ClarisWorks WP Options", not "... Prefs". (The last STR# resource
- in ClarisWorks seems to be a list of the files it looks for in the Claris
- folder.) I renamed the files, and it seemed to work better.
-
- Except... the WP options still weren't being saved. I investigated this, and
- it turned out that changing rulers and fonts on an empty document and saving
- that as stationery wasn't enough to make ClarisWorks remember the changes. It
- wasn't bothering to write the font information -- after all, the file's
- empty, so what does it matter, right?
-
- The solution I found is to start a new empty document, set it up the way you
- like it, then type a single word in before saving it as stationery. (I
- recommend the word "zygodactylous", but others may work.) Then close the
- document, load it again, delete the word, and save it as stationery again.
-
- Hopefully now I'll never see another inch ruler.
-
-
- mathew
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