Quarterdeck's WebAuthor 2.0 for Microsoft Word for Windows 6



This document contains important information that may not have made it
into the WebAuthor manual, or the on-line Help.

Introduction:  We at Quarterdeck Corporation are proud to offer version
2.0 of WebAuthor, our popular HTML authoring tool add-in to Microsoft
Word 6 for Windows.  For this installment of WebAuthor, we have added a
lot of new features, such as automatic document conversion from Word
format to HTML, new toolbars for easy formatting of text and paragraphs,
support for popular Netscape/HTML 3.0  extensions (tables, backgrounds,
center, colors, and text flow around images), support for image maps,
and much faster importing and exporting of HTML documents.

Also, we are now bundling an excellent image converter/editor, WebImage
from Group 42, Inc.,  so that you can make interesting backgrounds,
buttons, clipart, and image maps for your HTML pages.  WebImage comes
with about 100 sample backgrounds and clipart pieces. For your Internet
browsing pleasure, we are also including the excellent Quarterdeck
Mosaic browser in this package.  In later releases, we will be
supporting the rest of the Netscape/HTML 3.0 extensions, the newer
Microsoft extensions, Java, and other new technologies as they develop.

One way in which you can help us to make this the best product of its
kind on the market is to LET US KNOW WHAT YOU WANT!  If you have a
feature that you think we should add, or even a minor suggestion, please
do not hesitate to mention it to us.  We always listen to our customers
because that's how we make products our customers love.  As a matter of
fact, many of the new features in version 2.0 were suggested by our
current customers. So, check out the rest of this README file and then
enjoy creating wonderful documents for the Internet's World Wide Web.

While you are out on the Web, check us out at:
http://www.quarterdeck.com
	
Contents:

1. Compatibility Issues
2. Large HTML files
3. Temporary modifications to Word's menus and toolbars
4. How to uninstall WebAuthor
5. Special Characters
6. Important Information About On-line Help
7. Troubleshooting


1.	Compatibility Issues

-  This version of WebAuthor currently supports only the English
language version of Microsoft Word for Windows 6.  By early 1996,
Quarterdeck plans to release localized French and German localized
versions, as well as an English language version compatible with French
and German releases of Word 6 for Windows.
 
-  Quarterdeck is also working on a 32-bit version of WebAuthor for Word
for Windows `95 and NT.  This should be completed by either the end of
1995, or early 1996 and will be a free upgrade for our customers.
 
-  Currently, if you would like to use WebAuthor on a system running
Windows `95 or NT, you must use it with the 16-bit version of Word only.
 
-  Some tables created by WebAuthor may appear elongated when viewed in
some versions of Netscape's browser. However, other browsers that also
support tables should properly display these same files. If you are
experiencing this, try viewing your document in another HTML 3.0 browser
or contact Netscape about an upgrade.
 
-  Tables and Quarterdeck Mosaic - We  have provided, free of charge, a
copy of Quarterdeck Mosaic with this version of WebAuthor.  This current
version of Quarterdeck Mosaic does not support tables, so when viewing a
page with tables, they will not be displayed properly.  However, very
soon a version of Quarterdeck Mosaic that does support tables, as well
as other Netscape/HTML 3.0 tags will be made available.

-  When using some video resolutions, the Char, Para  and Form Control  toolbars
may display text that does not fully fit their associated buttons. The following steps will
allow you to reformat those toolbars to fit your particular configuration.

	1) From within WebAuthor, select the Tools menu and then Macro...

	2) A dialog window with all of WebAuthor's macros will appear. There are three 	
	macros that format the toolbars:
		
			CreateHTMLCharTB  -  reformats the Char  toolbar.
			CreateHTMLParaTB  -  reformats the Para  toolbar.
			CreateHTMLFormControlTB - reformats the Form  toolbar.

	3) Highlight the macro you wish to run and click the Run button.


2.      Large HTML Files

Creating documents for the World Wide Web is a bit different than
standard word processing.   The most elegant documents are those that
are kept small, with links to other small documents.  Avoid the urge to
create a single long document, and instead think of places in your
document where you can add links to another document.  When you do this,
you'll find that it not only makes it quicker to parse the tags in your
file, but when you load it into a browser, it won't slow down your
system.  And, if you are making your HTML file available on the World
Wide Web, you won't hear a lot of complaints about the size of the file.

Remember that the larger your HTML file the longer it takes to travel
across the Web. The beauty of HyperText Markup Language is the ability
to LINK documents and images. Use this power and you'll learn to love
HTML.


3.      Temporary modifications to Word's menus and toolbars

When WebAuthor loads into Word for Windows, in order to avoid conflicts
with HTML authoring conventions, certain aspects of Word's functions may
get turned off.  For instance, since HTML has specific formatting tags,
if you are using Word's Formatting toolbar, WebAuthor will turn that
toolbar off, so you don't try to use the toolbar's formatting.
Unfortunately, Word does not allow different toolbar setups in different
windows, so if it is turned off in one Word window, it will be turned
off in all Word windows. In order to re-implement the toolbar, you have
only to select View Toolbars... and select the toolbar you want.  Do
this after you have exited WebAuthor and want to return to normal Word
editing.


4.      How to uninstall WebAuthor

WebAuthor does not have an uninstall feature, although that will be
addressed in the near future.  For the time being, if you want to
uninstall WebAuthor, you should do the following:

A. Delete all files and subdirectories from the \WEBAUTH directory.

B. From the \WINWORD\STARTUP directory, delete the file HTML60S.DOT.
NOTE: The directory in which you have installed Word 6 may NOT be called
the \WINWORD directory, so make sure you choose the proper directory.

C. From the \WINWORD\TEMPLATE directory, delete the file HTML60.DOT.

D. From the \WINDOWS directory, delete the file WEBAUTH.INI.

E. From the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, delete the files CTL3DV2.DLL,
GIF2BMP.DLL, HTML2RTF.DFA, HTML2RTF.DLL, HTML2RTF.LLR, MUSCROLL.DLL,
PARSE.CTL, PARSE.DLL, QDSPLASH.DLL, RTF2HTML.CTL, RTF2HTML.DLL, and
SWFORMS.TTF.

F. From Program Manager (or whatever shell you have) select the
Quarterdeck WebAuthor 2.0 program group and delete it.

G. If you want to clean up your WIN.INI, you may delete a line under the
[MS Proofing Tools] section that reads:  Custom Dict
2=C:\WEBAUTH\HTML.DIC.  Keeping this line intact will cause no problems.

After you have deleted these files, your uninstall of WebAuthor 2.0
should be complete.  We hope you reinstall it again, though.


6.      Special Characters

If you want to select a special character such as a copyright or
trademark symbol, you must select it from the Symbol screen, and not the
Special Characters screen.  Keep in mind that you don't lose any symbols
because all of them are available from the Symbol screen.  Refer to Help
for further information.


7.      Important Information About On-line Help

To access the on-line help for WebAuthor, click the Help button on any
WebAuthor dialog box, use the Help menu bar option, or use the Cntl/F1
keystroke sequence. Alternately, you may run Help by clicking on the
Help Icon in the Quarterdeck WebAuthor 2.0 Program Group.  If you do not
see the topic you wish immediately, use Help's keyword Search feature.
Note: if you press [F1] while using WebAuthor, you will display the
regular Word for Windows help system.  If you need to access MSWord's
Help system, create a new Word document and access Help from that
window.


8.      Troubleshooting WebAuthor

The following is a Q&A regarding WebAuthor.  If you have a problem with
WebAuthor, hopefully one of these troubleshooting questions and answers
will be of help.  Remember to always search on Help because that's where
you'll find the answers to most of your questions.

Q.  Why can't some of my images display in Word?

A.  While most people on the Web use either .GIF or .JPG files as inline
images, Word is limited in the formats of files it can display.  We have
written a special .GIF to .BMP converter so that Word can display your
.GIF images.  In the future, we will be adding .JPG and .PNG formats to
the converter. Currently, a .JPG converter/filter can be attained from
MicroSoft for Word 6.0


Q. WebAuthor displays certain things differently than my browser does.

A. The browser defines the look of the document. It defines how
Headings, colors and fonts will display.  Think of WebAuthor as a
QuasiWYG program.  That is, it can approximate what your page will look
like in a browser.


Q.  When I try to use Image Manager to select an image, WebAuthor keeps
bringing up the "Convert File" dialog box.

A.  This is not WebAuthor, rather Word doing this.  This means that
Word's Compuserve GIF filter is not installed.  You may install this
using MS Word's Setup, and selecting Graphics Filters.  The Compuserve
GIF filter is the last option on the last screen.

