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Preface

Chapter Preface

Basic Procedures and General Operation

Chapter Basic Procedures and General Operation
  Topic WSWin Help for Strugglers
    Sub-Topic What to Do First
    Sub-Topic Setting Up the Page
    Sub-Topic Setting Tabs, Spacing, Alignment, and Other Text Details
  Topic WSWin Fundamentals
    Sub-Topic Frames
    Sub-Topic Paragraph Styles
    Sub-Topic Templates
  Topic Nature of Draft Editor
  Topic Using Draft Editor and Other Features of WSWin
    Sub-Topic Modifying Paragraph Styles
    Sub-Topic Stray Tags
    Sub-Topic Setting Up Styles Efficiently
    Sub-Topic The WSX (WSWin Text) Format
  Topic Templates
  Topic More on Formatting Tags and Paragraph Formatting
  Topic Using Formatting Tags
  Topic How to Draw a Frame
    Sub-Topic Using the Clip Art Template
  Topic Frame Problems
    Sub-Topic Creating a New Border Line Style
    Sub-Topic Linking Frames
  Topic Import and Export in WSWin
  Topic Conversion Utility
  Topic Value of WSX for Smaller Stored Files
  Topic More on WSX
  Topic ASCII and WSX
  Topic Importing ASCII into Your Own Template
  Topic Workaround for HTML into WSWin
  Topic Getting Font Changes to "Take"
  Topic Search and Replace for Bold, Italic, Other Attributes
  Topic Pasting Text into WSWin's "Find" Dialogue
  Topic Page Numbering in WSWin
    Sub-Topic Important Warning
  Topic Setting Up Page Number for Page xx of xxx
  Topic Looking for Stray Stuff Left When You Repaginate
  Topic Footnotes in WSWin
  Topic More on Footnotes in WSWin
  Topic Guide Words in Headers
    Sub-Topic Some Guideword Problems
    Sub-Topic Disappearing Floating Frames
  Topic How to Stop and Restart Numbering in WSWin2
  Topic Lining Up Periods in Numbers
  Topic Sorting in WSWin and Other Topics
    Sub-Topic Index Bug
    Sub-Topic Deleting to a Character
  Topic Sorting with AmiPro
  Topic Putting a Border on a Page
  Topic Repeating a Custom Page Border by a Custom Header
    Sub-Topic Selecting Frames with the Keyboard
    Sub-Topic Placing Repeating Elements through Custom Headers/Footers
    Sub-Topic The Best Way to Work with the Custom Header as a Border
  Topic Using Comments and Notations in WSWin
  Topic Dividing into Chapters with WSWin
  Topic Uses for Caption Frames
  Topic Outlining in WordStar for Windows
  Topic Using Span Columns
    Sub-Topic Neat Use for Spanning Body Text
  Topic Vertical Centering in WSWin
  Topic Linking Frames Out of Order
  Topic Imposing Pages - ClickBook
  Topic Printing Postcards
    Sub-Topic Important Warning for Merge Printing
  Topic Landscape Orientation Limitations in WSWin
  Topic Emulating Having Two Copies of the Same Document Open
  Topic Getting a Dark Background with White Letters in WSWin
    Sub-Topic Using a Macro for White Text on Dark Background
    Sub-Topic How to Use It
  Topic Clean Screen Macro
  Topic Recording Macros Doesn't Always Work
  Topic Simplified Long File Name Macro
  Topic Differences between WSWin 1.5 and WSWin 2
  Topic DTP Books and Magazines

 

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Typography and Issues with Type

Chapter Typography and Issues with Type
  Topic Why Good Typography Matters
    Sub-Topic Does It Matter, and to Whom?
    Sub-Topic Why you shouldn't use two spaces after punctuation if you are using proportional typefaces
  Topic Getting Great Type with WordStar for Windows
    Sub-Topic Don't Touch That Spacebar!
    Sub-Topic No Dittoheads Here
    Sub-Topic Be True, Not Straight
    Sub-Topic Hold That Hyphen!
    Sub-Topic Anything But Underlining!
    Sub-Topic No Wide Open Spaces
    Sub-Topic WSWin Doesn't Know Best
  Topic Getting Legible Type
    Sub-Topic How many characters should appear on a line
    Sub-Topic Serif, Sans, Justified, Rag Right
    Sub-Topic Line Length
    Sub-Topic Type Color
    Sub-Topic Sans for Headings?
  Topic Why One Space after Punctuation?
  Topic Kerning and Tracking
  Topic What "Kerning Above" Does
  Topic Line Height Problems in WSWin
  Topic Autoleading
    Sub-Topic How to Get Rid of Autoleading
    Sub-Topic A Great Undocumented Way to Trick WSWin into Using YOUR Leading Choice
  Topic Figuring Line Height and Lines Per Inch
  Topic Aligning Baselines across Columns
    Sub-Topic How to Set Up a Leading Grid
    Sub-Topic Snapping to the Grid
    Sub-Topic Why You MUST Have Your Top and Bottom Margins Conform to the Leading Grid
  Topic Drop Caps
    Sub-Topic How I Like to Make Drop Caps
  Topic Turning Off Automatic Font Mapping in WSWin
  Topic Making Fractions in WSWin
    Sub-Topic Denominator Baseline Position
    Sub-Topic Weight of Super- and Subscripts
    Sub-Topic The Ideal Solution: An Expert Set
    Sub-Topic Another Solution: Use a Font Editor
  Topic Making True Fractions in WSWin
  Topic Slash Fraction Macro
    Sub-Topic How to Use the Macro
  Topic Why Text Reflows Happen
  Topic Division Sign Character Position
  Topic Making a Chart for a Font's Entire Character Set
  Topic Points in Computer Type
  Topic What Is Hinting?

 

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Graphics

Chapter Graphics
  Topic Importing Graphics - Procedure
  Topic Precise Placement for Graphics
  Topic How to Make a Contoured Text Wraparound for a Graphic
    Sub-Topic Why Use Parent and Child Frames?
    Sub-Topic What to Remember:
  Topic How to Get a Smaller File with Repeating Graphics
  Topic Bitmaps and WSWin
  Topic Getting JPG into WSWin
  Topic "Paste Special" Options
  Topic Rotating Graphics in WSWin
  Topic Rotating Text
    Sub-Topic The Most Important Thing to Do When You're Working with Graphic Elements in a Graphic Frame
  Topic More on Rotating Text in WSWin
  Topic Gray Shades and Line Screens
    Sub-Topic Printers May Do It Another Way
    Sub-Topic JPG Caution

 

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Dealing with Tables

Chapter Dealing with Tables
  Topic Tables
  Topic How to Have a Default Table Style
  Topic Pasting from Spreadsheet into WSWin Table

 

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Correct Grammar and MailList for Windows

Chapter Correct Grammar and MailList for Windows
  Topic Correct Grammar Program
  Topic MailList for Windows
  Topic More about MailList
  Topic More on MailList
  Topic More on MailList and Com 10 Envelopes
  Topic DOS MailList to MailList for Windows

 

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Troubleshooting

Chapter Troubleshooting
  Topic WSWin Bugs
  Topic Troubleshooting WSWin Crashes
    Sub-Topic Protecting from a Corrupt Default.WST
  Topic Troubleshooting WSWin
  Topic How to Reinstall WSWin
  Topic Recovering Keystroke Sets
  Topic Toolbar Settings in WSW.INI
  Topic Problems with Tags after Imports
  Topic Fixing Corrupted Documents

 

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