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As of last week, sometimes when I press TAB to start a paragraph, I get 20 or more tabs in quick succession. This is not a problem with my keyboard, it has...
5 Sep 8, 2006
2:38 pm

John Rethorst
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I'd just never noticed it before, but text can be dragged from WP to an OSX application and back without problems. That's pretty good integration between two...
5 Sep 6, 2006
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John Rethorst
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With large and continuing gratitude to this group, especially to John and Tom and David, the last of whom especially has been consistently helpful beyond any...
19 Sep 6, 2006
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John Rethorst
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I have finally found a workaround to the problem I sought help on in late July. For those who haven't seen (or remembered) it, this is a summary. (iMac G5,...
7 Aug 24, 2006
3:28 pm

John Rethorst
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Apple revealed some details about their upcoming Mac OS X v 10.5, code named Leopard. However, I have yet to see mention of "dropped" features. For those of us...
10 Aug 23, 2006
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John Rethorst
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I thought I would share an OS X printing difficulty that I have just overcome. My family forced me this month to replace our OS 9 Mac. In order to keep running...
4 Aug 22, 2006
3:44 pm

John Rethorst
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Randy: Your message came through lacking the "ht" before the "tp": replacing it works fine, though. Cheers, Jimmy. ...
1 Aug 16, 2006
9:34 pm

James ARTHURS
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Here's an interesting article: Three Ways To Run Classic On An Intel-Mac tp://www.zisman.ca/Articles/2006/LEM-Classic-on-Intel.html I note that he has been...
1 Aug 16, 2006
5:48 pm

Randy B. Singer
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I have long used WP for Windows and tried WP for Linux - still have it but it won’t install on some current Linux distributions. Just recently I found this...
8 Aug 10, 2006
4:22 pm

Rick Albright
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I stand to be corrected on this point, but my understanding of "universal&quot; means that it will run of G4, G5, and Intel Mac's. If you can run classic now, you...
1 Aug 9, 2006
9:51 pm

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Am I correct in the observation that I'm unable to insert footnote references in a table cell? For example: I have a document with two parallel columns of text...
6 Aug 7, 2006
2:03 pm

John Rethorst
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Did WP ever support this, in OS 8 and 9? I simply don't remember. If it did, would someone be kind enough to email me the Contextual Menu Extension from OS 9...
5 Aug 6, 2006
8:48 pm

Doug Auwarter
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This set of Applescripts and macros transfers text and bibliographic references from a database to a WordPerfect document, placing citation data in...
4 Aug 6, 2006
11:04 am

Geoff Gilbert
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This may have something to do with the Launch Services database, which is the OSX equivalent of the OS 9 desktop. I ran OnyX 1.7.1, an excellent free...
2 Aug 3, 2006
9:13 pm

Bob Stern
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A long time Moderator John was pleading to get the Mac version of WP released so development could continue. I find that it is the only thing that does what I...
76 Aug 3, 2006
5:50 am

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I followed all the instructions, rebuilding the classic desktop before logging out and back in. The weird "plaid" icons on the Word Perfect documents still ...
6 Aug 2, 2006
6:24 am

Geoff Gilbert
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This might have happened with Panther too, I don't remember, since it's pretty infrequent and, I think, only after WP and Classic have been running for a...
1 Aug 1, 2006
11:00 pm

John Rethorst
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Can anyone please tell me whether WordPerfect for Mac as downloadable via the links on this site will open and make editable files created in WP 10 for...
44 Aug 1, 2006
10:55 pm

John Rethorst
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I downloaded WP 3.5e (thanx for the link, folks) and installed it, with the updates. Tonight I was printing an envelope. The new version has all the addresses...
2 Aug 1, 2006
10:33 pm

John Rethorst
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Just wanted to thank John R. for his latest (2.1) version of Tips and Macros. For any of you who have not delved into this compendium of (only some of) his...
2 Jul 30, 2006
9:17 pm

John Rethorst
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So, I am still unable to open WP files on my G5 iMac, OS10.4, except by dragging the icon & dropping it on the WP icon. Double-clicking on the filename will...
6 Jul 30, 2006
8:49 pm

John Rethorst
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Hi folks -- I'm happy to say WP is running much better in Classic since I switched from Jaguar to Tiger, so I'm just about ready to give up native OS 9...
7 Jul 29, 2006
5:22 pm

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... It's been my experience that the Finder's icon cache becomes corrupted quite often, leading to icons like what you've just described. Logging out and...
3 Jul 26, 2006
1:18 am

John Rethorst
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On Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:27 am (PDT), "David Patterson" ... Nothing on the Mac side that I'm aware of. There was some work going on by some OpenOffice.org...
1 Jul 25, 2006
11:34 pm

Smokey Ardisson
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Will anything convert Lotus Wordpro files? I've never gotten anything but code garbage trying to open these with any other application. -- "If taste were...
1 Jul 25, 2006
2:27 pm

David Patterson
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This machine is beautiful (as much as a computer can be) I am still getting used to the wide screen but other then that and some problems with bootcamp Im...
2 Jul 25, 2006
12:46 pm

Douglas Bouley
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My documents written in WordPerfect and filed with WP icons suddenly opened with garbage symbols at beginning and end, and actual text all run together with...
1 Jul 25, 2006
2:47 am

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I have WP 3.5. I got it preinstalled on this Mac. Is there any upgrade to 3.5e available? Where do I find it? I have found upgrades online, but only for 3.5e....
5 Jul 24, 2006
4:47 am

John Rethorst
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... Most OSX driver installers are packages: control-click on the icon to show package contents, find the OS 9 driver and install it manually. But my...
1 Jul 23, 2006
6:01 pm

John Rethorst
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Over 100 pages of hints, how-to's and macros for every aspect of the program. Useful for beginners and experienced users alike. This 21st edition, the first...
16 Jul 23, 2006
12:23 am

John Rethorst
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