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Word Perfect - TM

jmorngstar@aol.com

2005-12-22, 5:55 pm

Does anyone know if TM, as in trademark, not the R with the circle
around it, is one of the options for the extended character set in
WP5.1?

When you haven't had to do something in 15 years and you cannot find
the books, life becomes difficult.

Thanks.

Janice

Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send

2005-12-22, 5:55 pm

jmorngstar@aol.com wrote:
> Does anyone know if TM, as in trademark, not the R with the circle
> around it, is one of the options for the extended character set in
> WP5.1?

It's not: http://telecom.tbi.net/asc-ibm.html

But you just put (TM) instead.

> When you haven't had to do something in 15 years and you cannot find
> the books, life becomes difficult.

Hon, you don't NEED the books for WP 5.1. Their help system puts any
Windoze product to shame. Hit F3, then the first letter of what you are
looking for, in this case C for character sets. Look on the right side
and see what the command is, then type in that command right from that
help screen and you get directions.

And if you don't remember what the function keys do, you just hit F3
twice, and the second screen is a display of what all the function keys do.

Anne Carle

2005-12-23, 12:56 am

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:36:38 -0800, Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to
send <mmeahan@TRASHsonic.net> wrote:

>Hon, you don't NEED the books for WP 5.1. Their help system puts any
>Windoze product to shame. Hit F3, then the first letter of what you are
>looking for, in this case C for character sets. Look on the right side
>and see what the command is, then type in that command right from that
>help screen and you get directions.
>
>And if you don't remember what the function keys do, you just hit F3
>twice, and the second screen is a display of what all the function keys do.

Soooo true--I just can't imagine life w/o WP 5.1! LOL!

Anne/OH

jmorngstar@aol.com

2005-12-23, 12:56 am

Thanks for the help. That is what I ended up doing, by shrinking it and
putting it in a suprascript. I just had to use an Alt + a letter key
for three separated TM drugs, which I didn't want to tie up. I have to
use these every single day and so I didn't want to not have it in a
macro.

I do know how to use the help menu, but the help menu does not allow
you to look at a list of the total 1500 extended characters. An old
book (that I cannot find) used to have the whole catalog and you just
had to look up the key combination to place it where you wanted to put
it. I was hoping for TM as one of those combinations.

Thanks again.

Janice

Blupencl

2005-12-23, 12:56 am

It's doable, but it's sad.

<<Soooo true--I just can't imagine life w/o WP 5.1! LOL!

--
Blupencl

Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send

2005-12-23, 12:56 am

Blupencl wrote:
> It's doable, but it's sad.

I'll say. I go about 1.5 to 2 x as fast in WP51 as I do in Word.

Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send

2005-12-23, 12:56 am

There aren't 1500 DOS ASCII characters, only about 128. Now, WP may
have ways to do 1500 of them, but it's a WP thing, not an ASCII thing,
and I don't see it anywhere in my references.

jmorngstar@aol.com wrote:
>
> I do know how to use the help menu, but the help menu does not allow
> you to look at a list of the total 1500 extended characters. An old
> book (that I cannot find) used to have the whole catalog and you just
> had to look up the key combination to place it where you wanted to put
> it. I was hoping for TM as one of those combinations.

RaeMorrill

2005-12-23, 12:56 am

You may be wrong, Melinda! I just pulled out my Wp manual. If you
compose (Control-V) 4,41 there is the TM symbol. I am not set up to
print out of wp51, but try it, Janice. Control-V then at key+ prompt
type 4,41

Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send wrote:
> jmorngstar@aol.com wrote:
>
>
>
> It's not: http://telecom.tbi.net/asc-ibm.html
>
> But you just put (TM) instead.
>
>
>
> Hon, you don't NEED the books for WP 5.1. Their help system puts any
> Windoze product to shame. Hit F3, then the first letter of what you are
> looking for, in this case C for character sets. Look on the right side
> and see what the command is, then type in that command right from that
> help screen and you get directions.
>
> And if you don't remember what the function keys do, you just hit F3
> twice, and the second screen is a display of what all the function keys do.

RaeMorrill

2005-12-23, 12:56 am

I don't know if the TM goes superscript, but I just tried highlighting
it and superscripting and it looks like it may work (can't print).
Holler if you need more info

jmorngstar@aol.com wrote:
> Thanks for the help. That is what I ended up doing, by shrinking it and
> putting it in a suprascript. I just had to use an Alt + a letter key
> for three separated TM drugs, which I didn't want to tie up. I have to
> use these every single day and so I didn't want to not have it in a
> macro.
>
> I do know how to use the help menu, but the help menu does not allow
> you to look at a list of the total 1500 extended characters. An old
> book (that I cannot find) used to have the whole catalog and you just
> had to look up the key combination to place it where you wanted to put
> it. I was hoping for TM as one of those combinations.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Janice
>

jmorngstar@aol.com

2005-12-23, 12:56 am

Thanks Rae, I got it to work, but tied up three keys with the three TM
drugs that they insist have the frigging TM after them.

Melinda, it isn't 1500, but 1702 IBM possibilities. Now, I am sure that
they are math symbols, Greek, and Japanese.

I did find an old WP5 book, and you an look at the extended characters,
if anyone is interested by printing out CHARACTR.DOC. If you want to
see if your printer can print these, Print CHARMAP.TST.

I haven't checked to see if TM is among the 1702, but I will.

Janice

Blupencl

2005-12-23, 12:56 am

I'm not that much slower in Word, but I've been tweaking it pretty hard
for the three years I've had to use it. I was a new WP user when I
started with Judy. I stayed up all night three times in a row trying to
figure it out! I'd been using a little quick and dirty editing language
thing that was written for us by the computer department at work, and
before that it was a typwriter. Then I used platforms from different
places, and I just used Word at home to write letters and stuff. I sure
do miss WP.

"I'll say. I go about 1.5 to 2 x as fast in WP51 as I do in Word."

--
Blupencl

Anne Carle

2005-12-23, 10:54 am

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:07:03 -0600, Blupencl
<Blupencl.20h1vw@nospam.com> wrote:

>
>It's doable, but it's sad.

>
><<Soooo true--I just can't imagine life w/o WP 5.1! LOL!

Well, please take notes for the rest of us in case we're hijacked
there. I have no intentions of going by choice! <GG>

Anne/OH

Blupencl

2005-12-23, 10:54 am

I went sort of by choice because I MUST keep my production going. I
could not afford to suddenly be dumped into Word and not know how to
use it. Our accounts were steadily going that way and I wanted to keep
them.

I was just barely scratching the surface of WP and I still had an
account where it enabled me to do 600+ lph. That was heaven. I was
hired just for that account because they were always behind, and man
was I counting my $$$$$. I caught them up inside a week and there was
NO work and they went to a secondary or even tertiary thing for me.
What a disappointment it was. I'd be sitting somewhere wearing shades
and drinking something that had a little umbrella in it if I'd been
doing that one for the past 6 years.

But I'll say that it was a grueling ordeal, learning it. Just ask Rae,
Melinda, and Su, and poor Pam Persons. And everybody else.

<<Well, please take notes for the rest of us in case we're hijacked
there. I have no intentions of going by choice!

--
Blupencl

Anne Carle

2005-12-23, 5:55 pm

I've had to use it a little, and while I know it's powerful, it just
doesn't appeal to me at all! I suspect my thinking it's not intuitive
is due to my learning WP first, especially since I don't much like any
version of WP except 5.1and earlier versions. I suppose it's the GUI
interface I find distasteful.

Anne/OH

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:09:19 -0600, Blupencl
<Blupencl.20hzih@nospam.com> wrote:

>
>I went sort of by choice because I MUST keep my production going. I
>could not afford to suddenly be dumped into Word and not know how to
>use it. Our accounts were steadily going that way and I wanted to keep
>them.
>
>I was just barely scratching the surface of WP and I still had an
>account where it enabled me to do 600+ lph. That was heaven. I was
>hired just for that account because they were always behind, and man
>was I counting my $$$$$. I caught them up inside a week and there was
>NO work and they went to a secondary or even tertiary thing for me.
>What a disappointment it was. I'd be sitting somewhere wearing shades
>and drinking something that had a little umbrella in it if I'd been
>doing that one for the past 6 years.
>
>But I'll say that it was a grueling ordeal, learning it. Just ask Rae,
>Melinda, and Su, and poor Pam Persons. And everybody else.
>
><<Well, please take notes for the rest of us in case we're hijacked
>there. I have no intentions of going by choice!

RaeMorrill

2005-12-24, 12:55 am

I think that's right. I'm working, I want to produce, I could give a
rat's butt about pretty interfaces. waste of time

Anne Carle wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> I've had to use it a little, and while I know it's powerful, it just
> doesn't appeal to me at all! I suspect my thinking it's not intuitive
> is due to my learning WP first, especially since I don't much like any
> version of WP except 5.1and earlier versions. I suppose it's the GUI
> interface I find distasteful.
>
> Anne/OH
>
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:09:19 -0600, Blupencl
> <Blupencl.20hzih@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>