RELEASE NOTES FOR
MICROSOFT WORD ASSISTANT FOR WINDOWS VERSION 1.0
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Word Assistant online documentation. If you open this 
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CONTENTS

1. Tips and Known Problems for Word Assistant Components
2. Tips for Users 
3. Manually Decompressing the Files
4. Tips for Network Administrators
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TIPS AND KNOWN PROBLEMS FOR WORD ASSISTANT COMPONENTS

Templates: Tips
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o If you customize the look of a Word Assistant template by changing
  the point size of a predefined style, adjust line spacing to match
  the new point size or select "single" to let Word set line spacing
  automatically. If you don't adjust line spacing, both the 
  insertion point and the affected text will look clipped (if you 
  increased point size) or widely spaced (if you decreased point 
  size).

o When you insert a clip-art image in a Word Assistant template,
  apply the "Picture" style to it, or choose the Paragraph command
  from the Format menu to set the picture's line spacing to "single."
  Either approach will make the image display correctly.


Forms: Known Problems
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o Changing the International Windows settings in Control Panel does 
  not automatically change the settings in Word forms. You must
  unprotect the form, change the format of the field, then reprotect 
  the form.

o Tabbing through a field that contains a negative number disrupts the
  formatting. As a result, Word won't recognize the field as a valid
  numeric entry and won't add the number into totals. To correct this,
  you will have to manually adjust the formatting of the field.


Font Selector: Tips
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o Font Selector builds its database file, FONTTOOL.DBF, when you 
  install Word Assistant. If the file becomes corrupted or is 
  accidentally deleted, follow these steps to rebuild it: 1) exit 
  Word, 2) delete FONTTOOL.DBF from your Windows directory, and 
  3) restart Word. The next time you start Font Selector, it will 
  automatically rebuild its database.

o You can customize Font Selector by changing its initialization
  file, FONTSEL.INI: 
  -- To put the Font Selector button on the Standard toolbar, add 
     the following lines after the [Settings] section:

       [Misc]
       Button=1

     After making this adjustment, exit Word and restart it to 
     see the changes take effect.
  
  -- You also can customize the point size of fonts displayed in 
     the As Font and Normal views by changing these values in the 
     [Settings] section:
     -- To set the size of fonts displayed in As Font view, type 
        AsFontSize=18 (Note: some video drivers limit AsFontSize 
        to 16 points.)
     -- To set the size of fonts displayed in Normal view, type 
        NormalSize=10.
     In these examples, substitute the point sizes you want for 
      "18" and "10." For these settings to take effect, you must 
     exit Word,delete FONTTOOL.DBF, then restart Word. 

o If you want to assign Font Selector to a toolbar button, menu,
  or shortcut key, create a macro that looks like the following:

    Sub MAIN
    FontSelector
    End Sub

  Then assign the macro to the button, menu, or key using the 
  procedures in the Word Help topic, "Customizing and Optimizing 
  Word."

o If you are running Adobe Type ManagerŪ (ATM), you can stop Font 
  Selector from rebuilding its database every time you start it.
  Just remove all ATM fonts whose names match exactly the names of
  TrueType fonts installed on your system.

Font Selector: Known Problems
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o If you change button sizes in Word, the changes won't take effect
  until you exit, and then restart Font Selector.
  

Special Paper: Tips
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o If you want to assign Special Paper to a toolbar button, menu, or 
  shortcut key, create a macro that looks like the following:

    Sub MAIN
    SpecialPaper
    End Sub

  Then assign the macro to the button, menu, or key using the 
  procedures in the Word Help topic, "Customizing and Optimizing 
  Word."

o If you insert a Special Paper design into a template, copy the 
  FilePrint and FilePrintDefault macros from file SPECPPR.DOT to 
  your template. To do this, choose the Macros command from the 
  Tools menu, and then choose the Organizer button. For details 
  on using the Organizer, see the Word Help topic, "Copying Styles 
  from a Document or Template."
  
Special Paper: Known Problems
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o If you insert a Special Paper design before Word creates NORMAL.DOT 
  (that is, the very first time you run Word), you will see this  
  error: "C:\<WinWord path>\normal.dot does not exist," where 
  <WinWord path> is the location of WINWORD.EXE. Special Paper's 
  macros won't be copied to the Special Paper template and Special 
  Paper won't work properly. To force Word to create NORMAL.DOT, exit 
  and restart Word.

o With some display drivers, Special Paper may cause Word to freeze
  after you insert a Special Paper design in page layout view with the
  zoom level set to 50% or greater. To prevent a freeze, modify the
  WINWORD6.INI file by setting BITMAPMEMORY=0 (for details on this 
  setting, see the Special Paper online Help topic, "Drawing Special 
  Paper Designs Faster").
 
o Double-clicking the Special Paper design can affect functionality.
  You won't lose text, but Special Paper might not give you the 
  option of printing a proof copy. To restore this option, choose 
  Close Picture on the Picture toolbar, delete the design, and then 
  reinsert it.

o The file SPECPPR.DOT must reside in the SPCLPPR subdirectory of 
  Word. If you move SPECPPR.DOT to a different directory, selecting
  a Special Paper design will give this error: "Word Error=1084."


Setup: Tips
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o You cannot launch any of Word Assistant's .WLL files from DOS 
  using Word's /l startup switch.

Setup: Known Problems
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o If you select the Custom/Complete option and specify a directory 
  for Font Assistant, you may see this warning message: "Setup has
  detected an older version of Microsoft Word Assistant in the 
  destination directory." Ignore this warning. The Setup program 
  will install Font Assistant in the directory you specified.

o If Setup incorrectly reports that Word version 6 is not installed,
  exit Setup, and then add the following statement to the [Microsoft 
  Word] section of WINWORD6.INI: PROGRAMDIR=<WinWord path>. Here,  
  <WinWord path> is the location of WINWORD.EXE. Then run the Setup 
  program again.

o If you've changed the Startup directory listed on the File Locations
  tab when you choose the Options command from the Tools menu (and in 
  the STARTUP-PATH variable in WINWORD6.INI), Word Assistant will not 
  install its .WLL files correctly. To resolve this, set Startup to 
  <WinWord path>\STARTUP where <WinWord path> is the location of 
  WINWORD.EXE. Next, run the Setup program again, and choose Remove 
  All. Finally, run the Setup program one more time to install Word 
  Assistant correctly.


TIPS FOR USERS

If your system has many fonts
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o If your system has many installed fonts, fonts may begin to 
  appear in the Arial typeface. This substitution probably 
  indicates a lack of Windows GDI resource. To eliminate the
  substitution, use Font Assistant to deactivate fonts you are
  not using or use Control Panel to remove unused fonts.


If you're using the new Microsoft Mouse
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o If you're using the new, ergonomic Microsoft Mouse, be sure to 
  upgrade to version 9.01 of the Mouse software.


MANUALLY DECOMPRESSING THE FILES

o All files on the Word Assistant disks are compressed. The Setup 
  program will decompress the files during installation. You can, 
  however, decompress them manually using the DECOMP.EXE program 
  that comes on Disk 1. DECOMP.EXE can decompress all Word Assistant
  files except those used only by the Setup program itself.

  To use DECOMP.EXE, insert Disk 1 into drive A (or B), and then 
  copy DECOMP.EXE to c:\. Remove Disk 1, and then insert the disk 
  containing the file you want to decompress. Next, at a DOS prompt,
  type the following:

     c:\DECOMP a:\filename.ex_ c:\dir_name\filename.ext

  Here filename.ex_ is the name of the file you want to
  decompress, and c:\dir_name\filename.ext is the full name of
  the decompressed file on your hard disk.
 

TIPS FOR NETWORK ADMINISTRATORS

Creating a Network Setup
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o Create a directory (for example, WA10) from which to install Word
  Assistant. Within that directory, create a DISK1 directory and a 
  DISK2 directory, and then copy the contents of Disk 1 and Disk 2 
  into their respective directories. Tell the users to run the Setup 
  program from the DISK1 directory. Every user must either have a 
  legal copy of Word Assistant or must be covered by a site license
  for it.

Installing to Windows on a Network
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o When running the Word Assistant Setup program, set the Windows 
  system directory to read/write so the Setup program installs 
  the  .TTF and .FIF files correctly. If the directory is set to
  read-only, the Setup program will fail.

Installing to Word on a Network
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o The Word Assistant Setup program will install all components 
  properly except for the .WLL files: BANNER.WLL, FONTTOOL.WLL, 
  SPCLPPR.WLL, and WASSTHLP.WLL. Users must manually copy the .WLL 
  files to their local Word startup directories before starting 
  Word Assistant.

Additional Copyright Information
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