

                       The Cat's Out of The Bag!

                       (c) 1995  by Stanley
          The twenty pound black and white furry Windows expert!


                  Bob Miller's  Stanley Does Windows


  Word for Windows 6.0x

  Q: I just tried to print out an envelope for the first time.  First, I
  noticed that the old envelope icon in Winword 2.0 is gone, replaced by a
  cumbersome procedure for printing an envelope.  When I printed out an
  envelope, the address was double-spaced! Looked bad, and of course, I
  couldn't get the entire address printed.

  A:Envelopes and labels are probably one of WinWord's worst
  imple-mentations.  No matter what kind of formatting you have for the
  text, when you copy it into the envelope box, it is formatted as
  ENVELOPE ADDRESS, which is one of the styles in the NORMAL style sheet.
  Likewise, the return address is formatted as ENVELOPE RETURN.  You must
  go into the FORMAT STYLE menu and change the para-graph and font
  attributes for these two styles to whatever you want.  In particular,
  you should specify single space and no first line indent.  Save all this
  stuff to the template, and thereafter the envelope should print
  properly.

  Labels are even worse because no matter what font you want, the default
  remains the same, so if you want something other than the default you
  must change it each time. I added the envelope icon back on the tool
  bar, and hooked it to the envelope and label macro.

  Q: I frequently need to open files that don't end in .doc and it is a pain
  to have to keep changing the file open extension.  Is there anyway that
  I can make Word default to all files instead of just .doc?

  A: To change the default file extension in the FileOpen dialog for Word for
  Windows 6.0, you can edit your FileOpen command to look as follows:


                                   Sub MAIN
                                   Dim dlg As FileOpen
                                   GetCurValues dlg
                                   dlg.Name = "*.*"
                                   n = Dialog(dlg)
                                   If dlg.Name <> "*.*" And n = - 1 Then FileOpen
                                   dlg
                                   End Sub

  Purrfectly yours,

  Stanley


  Bob Miller really does have a Stanley!  Stanley is a very computer
  literate cat and came to the desktop by way of main frames. He's been
  mousing around Bob's system for some time and has become a real expert!
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