Quarterdeck's WebAuthor TM
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
1.0 of WebAuthor.  This is our first release of what will be many
Internet products to make it easy to publish and find information on the
Internet, as well as send and receive electronic mail.  Quarterdeck is
well known for making computing easier by creating products for the
beginning as well as the expert user.  

WebAuthor version 1.0 is no exception to this.  If you are new to the
Internet and want to start creating HTML documents right away, then
WebAuthor is the perfect product for you.  If you are an expert in HTML,
and are tired of manually tagging all your documents, WebAuthor will
make your life a lot easier.  

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.

So, check out the rest of this README file and then enjoy creating
wonderful documents for the Internet's World Wide Web.


Contents:


1.	Compatibility Issues

2.	Loading existing Word for Windows documents into WebAuthor.

3.	New Features

4.	Non-standard tags

5.	Large HTML files

6.	Temporary modifications to Word's menus and toolbars

7.	How to uninstall WebAuthor

8.	Special Characters

9.	Important Information About On-line Help

10.	Change to Tutorial

11.	Troubleshooting



1.	Compatibility Issues

1.      This version of WebAuthor currently supports only the English
language version of Microsoft Word for Windows 6.  For the future,
Quarterdeck plans to release versions compatible with French and German
releases of Word for Windows 6.

2.      If you would like to use WebAuthor on a system running Windows
NT, you must use it with the 16-bit version of Word only. WebAuthor will
not currently work with the 32-bit version of Word for NT.



2.	Loading existing Word for Windows documents into WebAuthor

Currently, WebAuthor has no feature that will convert Word for Windows
documents into HTML, although Quarterdeck is actively developing a
program that will perform this function.  Briefly, the program will be
able to convert Word documents to HTML, keeping intact annotations,
footnotes, endnotes, and tables of contents, and creating hypertext
links between them.  Although no shipping date has been set, the program
should be out by the summer of 1995.

For the time being, if you have an existing Word for Windows document
that you want to convert to HTML, the easiest way in which to import
this file is to first save the Word document to text by doing the
following:

1.	Open the Word document.

2.	Click on File Save As...

3.      At the bottom of the dialog box, where it says:  "Save File As
Type:" select "Text Files [*.txt].  

4.	Name the file as document name.txt and Save.

5.      Select Tools, WebAuthor to start WebAuthor, if it is not already
loaded.  If WebAuthor is currently running, just press the right mouse
button.

6.	Select "Create a New HTML Document"

7.	Give the document a title

8.	Click on the Insert menu and select File...

9.      From the List Files of Type dialog, select the type of document
you wish to insert, in this case a .txt file since you saved the
document to text.

10.	WebAuthor will then insert the text file into your HTML file.

Note:  Keep in mind that all formatting, including that found in tables,
will no longer exist.  You will have to tag the file as you wish,
according to the HTML conventions.



3.      Added Features

1.      WebAuthor now recognizes non-standard tags such as the Netscape
extensions (as of March 1995) and the proposed HTML 3.0 tags, and
provides an Insert Custom tag option so that you can insert your own
tags.  Refer to Help for more information about this feature.

2.       An option has been added to the Tools menu under WebAuthor
Options to turn on the display of the conversion process when an HTML
document is brought into WebAuthor.  The default is to show a progress
bar at the bottom of the window.  If you turn on the display, when you
import an existing HTML document, you will see a lot of activity on the
screen as the WebAuthor parse program converts the document.

3.      An option has been added to allow you to print all hypertext
links and inline images as footnotes.  This makes it easy to keep track
of all your links when you print out your documents.

4.      When you have no documents open in Word, WebAuthor will be added
as an item in the File menu.  This makes it easy to start WebAuthor even
if the Tools menu is not being displayed.



4.      Non-standard tags

Although WebAuthor will recognize the non-standard tags such as the
Netscape extensions and the proposed HTML 3.0 tags, at this point, if
you try to insert an HTML 2.0 tag with a 3.0 attribute, WebAuthor will
not recognize that tag.  Complete support for the HTML 3.0 spec will be
implemented when the spec becomes official.



5.      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
through 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.



6.      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 win dows.  In order to re-implement the toolbar, you
only have 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.



7.      How to uninstall WebAuthor

This version of 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:

1.	Delete all files from the \WEBAUTH directory.

2.      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.

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

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

5.      From the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, delete the files PARSE.CTL,
PARSE.DLL, GIF2BMP.DLL, QDSPLASH.DLL, and SWFORMS.TTF.

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

7.      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 should
be complete.  We hope you reinstall it again, though.



8.      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.



9.      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 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. 



10.	Change to Tutorial

Step 12.2 in the tutorial says to save your tutorial document to HTML.
However, when you follow the procedure to do this, you will be prompted
to save the file to a Word document format, or .doc.  Go ahead and
perform this step, and then save the document to HTML by clicking on
File and selecting Save to HTML.

Also, wherever the HTML subdirectory is mentioned, the reference should be to your
\WEBAUTHOR directory.




11.	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.	BLINK or CENTER or XXX doesn't get recognized.

A.  WebAuthor only supports HTML version 2.00 standards.  The parser
will ignore Netscape as well as HTML 3.00 codes upon import, but will
not display these codes.

Q.  Why doesn't my .TIF, .BMP and .DRW display in WebAuthor?

A.  Most people on the Web use either .GIF or .XBM files as inline
images.  Word can convert the .GIF to .BMP and thus display it, but it
can't do the same for .XBM files.

Q.  My Toolbar, etc.. changed when I loaded WebAuthor.

A.   WebAuthor gives the user a very specific set of tools to use, but
some Word tools, such as font,  conflict with HTML tags. Character
formats such as  bold, italics, and others are defined via Tags internal
to the document.  Colors of text, fonts and such things are defined by
the browser.  To set WebAuthor options permanently, use the Tools /
WebAuthor Options command from the menu.

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.

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.

Q.   I have bold text and try to change it by selecting the normal style
but it doesn't work.

A.  Bold is a "character style" and normal is a "paragraph style"  It is
not possible to overwrite a character style with a paragrah style.

Q.   I get Word basic errors when I double click the control button when
in Preview mode.

A.  Currently, you will get this error.  However, no harm will be done
and Word will exit gracefully.   To avoid this problem, simply click on
the Close button on the Print Preview toolbar.
