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[ver] [sty] [files] [prn] PostScript Printer [lang] [desc] This file contains important information about macros, along with descriptions of the macros included with the program. 647818232 641846289 [fopts] [lnopts] Body Text [docopts] [tag] Body Text [fnt] Tms Rmn 240 49152 [algn] 225 [spc] 273 144 100 [brk] [line] [spec] [nfmt] 272 [tag] Body Single [fnt] Tms Rmn 240 49152 [algn] 225 [spc] 273 100 [brk] [line] [spec] [nfmt] 272 [lay] Standard [rght] 15840 12240 1440 1440 1440 1440 1440 10800 720 1440 2880 4320 5760 [hrght] [lyfrm] 11200 12240 1440 [frmlay] 1440 12240 1440 360 1440 1440 10800 [txt] [frght] [lyfrm] 13248 14400 12240 15840 [frmlay] 15840 12240 1440 360 14472 1440 1440 10800 [txt] [elay] 14 513 37 32 16384 0 0 65535 65535 Standard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65535 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 92 15 0 16384 0 0 65535 65535 Standard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65535 0 0 0 0 0 0 46 193 37 32 16384 0 0 65535 65535 Standard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65535 0 0 0 0 0 0 63 94 9 1025 16384 0 0 65535 65535 Standard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65535 0 0 0 0 0 0 [edoc] <+B><+!>***************************************** <+B><+!>READMAC.SAM - Am<\m> Professional ver. 1.2b <+B><+!>***************************************** This document contains some important information about macros, along with descriptions of several macros included with your Am<\m> Professional program. --------------------------------------------------- The Macro Documentation --------------------------------------------------- @Body Single@Documentation on the functions and statements used in the macro language is available from two sources: the on-line documentation and the printed documentation. The contents of both the On-Line and printed help are the same. On-Line documentation is available by choosing Help/Macro Documentation from the menus. When Macro Documentation is displayed, it replaces the regular Am<\m> Professional Help in the help window and allows you to look up individual functions and statements, either alphabetically, or by menu or function area name. @Body Single@NOTE: To see the editing screen and the on-line documentation on the screen at the same time you are working on a macro, resize the Am<\m> Professional window to fill the top half of the screen, and resize the Help window to fill the bottom half of the screen. @Body Single@The printed macro documentation is available by completing and returning your User Registration Card to Samna Corporation, or by contacting the Samna Support Department. There is no charge for the printed documentation. --------------------------------------------------- Changes from Beta User's Guide and Reference Manual @Body Single@--------------------------------------------------- @Body Single@Early revisions of the Am<\m> Professional User's Guide and Reference manual are incorrect with respect to the syntax used for beginning and ending a macro. Instead of beginning a macro with the MACRO statement and ending it with an ENDM statement, macros begin with a FUNCTION statement and end with an END FUNCTION statement. The operation and purpose of the FUNCTION and END FUNCTION statements are the same as the MACRO and ENDM statements; it is only the names which have changed. The Macro Reference Documentation reflects these changes. --------------------------------------------------- Macros on Disk --------------------------------------------------- @Body Single@There are several useful macros included with your Am<\m> Professional package. They were copied to the AMIPRO\MACROS directory when the program was installed. This section describes each macro and its purpose and usage. ADDFIELD.SMM @Body Single@This macro adds a new field to an existing Am<\m> Professional Merge Records File. When you use this macro, you are prompted for the existing records file name, the name of the new field, its position, and default contents for the new field. The macro then inserts the new field into the records file at the appropriate position and adds the default contents to each record. This macro calls the parserec() function in the file RECMAINT.SMM. Before you use this macro, you should ensure you have both files in your default macros directory. ANSI.SMM @Body Single@This macro displays all of the extended ansi characters in a list box, in which, you can then choose the character you would like insert and select OK. This macro is convenient when you want to use a special or foreign character and don't want to hunt through manuals to get the ansi value for the character. AUTO.SMM This macro loads macnew.smm and macopen.smm in place of your File/New and File/Open commands. These new commands will start a memo including the To and From fields and prompt you to fill in this data. This macro can be used as a model for your to customize for your particular needs. If you rename auto.smm to autoexec.smm it will automatically run when Am<\m> Professional is started. BATCHPRN.SMM @Body Single@This macro allows the user to select up to ten files on the disk for batch printing. It uses the dialog box functions to display a dialog box for this purpose. Once the desired files are selected, the user can change print options for any of the files. The files are then printed. @Body Single@NOTE: you must be using the windows spooler (print manager) for this to work. @Body Single@Also included with this macro is the dialog box file, BATCHPRN.EXT, which contains the dialog boxes which display while running this macro. If you would like more information about developing dialog boxes to use with Am<\m> Professional, you should order the Macro Documentation, and the Am<\m> Professional Software Developer's Toolkit. CHARCNT.SMM @Body Single@This macro counts the number of characters in a document. You must be in the file when you run this macro. CHGFONT.SMM @Body Single@This macro comes in very handy for converting all your style sheets to your default printer. Since a style sheet stores a font for each style, and there is no limit to the number of styles allowed, changing to a different printer with new fonts could require a lot of editing. This macro will examine your printer and fonts and allow you to modify all of your style sheets to use new fonts. @Body Single@Example: If you were to get a postscript printer, you could change all of your style sheets to use Bookman instead of Times Roman and Palatino instead of Helvetica. This is a real time saver. CUSTMENU.SMM @Body Single@This macro will help you customize your menus. You can add, rename, delete menu items, add functions or macros to menus, and save these settings to use at any time. DELETDUB.SMM @Body Single@This macro deletes duplicate occurrences of a word from a document. Although the spell function offers this ability, this macro will do it for you without having to spell check the document as well. The user is prompted to confirm each deletion. ENVELOPE.SMM @Body Single@This macro will print an envelope using a shaded address in a letter. Simply shade the address and run the macro. @Body Single@NOTE: you may have to modify ~env.sty (envelope style sheet) for your printer. Many laser printers must be set for landscape. If your printer prints envelopes in landscape, you must set this before running the macro. FINDFILE.SMM @Body Single@This macro uses the information contained in the file document description to find files matching criteria that you provide. You can search any path for files containing specific data in the document description field or any of the four user definable fields in the document description. FOURFILE.SMM @Body Single@ This macro displays the names of the last four files edited in Am<\m> Professional on the File menu, and allows the user to select one of these files for editing. It also contains replacement functions for the Open, New and Save As functions on the File menu so that the name of the current file can be kept track of. FRAME.SMM @Body Single@This macro lets you provide exact dimensions and location for a frame. You enter the size in inches and/or fractions of inches and location "from top of page" and "from left of page" and the macro will create the frame for you. IMPORT.SMM @Body Single@This macro lets you import all of your DCA (Revisable Form Text) files in the current directory, and places each one into an Am<\m> Professional file with the same name. The header information of this file also gives the instructions to change this macro for use with any of the text formats supported by Am<\m> Professional. LOANPMT.SMM @Body Single@This macro uses Microsoft Excel to calculate payments on a loan. It illustrates the user of Dynamic Data Exchange functions within Am<\m> Professional's macro language. In order to run this macro, you must be using the full Windows program, and have installed Microsoft Excel. Excel must also be in your path. MACNEW.SMM @Body Single@You can "tie" this macro to a style sheet. The macro will then automatically run when a new file is created using this style sheet. This macro asks To whom and from whom a memo is written. It is included to demonstrate the principle of linking a macro to a style sheet. See also AUTO.SMM. @Body Single@You will need to open this macro file using File/Open and checking the macro box. and enter the style sheet name in place of ~MEMO1.STY. MACOPEN.SMM @Body Single@This macro demonstrates how to "tie" a macro to a particular file. Using this method, you can automatically run a macro whenever a file is opened. See also, AUTO.SMM. @Body Single@For example: Whenever you open a file containing a table, you may want to turn on margins, table column and row headings, and grid lines. MERGDATA.SMM @Body Single@This macro provides a menu driven way to maintain an Am<\m> Professional Merge records file. The records file can be created, or an existing file can be used. For each field in the file, the user can fill out its value, and the values are automatically typed into the records file using the correct syntax. ODDEVEN.SMM @Body Single@This macro allows printing of just odd or even pages of a file. You must be in the file you want to print before running this macro. WORDCNT.SMM @Body Single@This macro counts the number of words in an Am<\m> Professional document. You must be in the file before you run this macro. @Body Single@NOTE: Am<\m> Professional's spelling checker includes a word count when the spelling checker is finished.