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Document Summary Not Created With Macro |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: The customer had set WordPerfect to make a document summary when saving a file. On files which were created by a macro which merges to the keyboard, the summary screen would not appear. Since the file had not been previously saved, the user felt that he should be able to create the document summary. Solutions: The real issue in this case is not with macros but rather with merges. If a customer uses a primary file with an existing document summary in a merge, the merge will carry the primary file's document summary over to the newly created file. Users who have set "Create Summary on Save/Exit" to "Yes" often come to intuitively think (incorrectly) that the Document Summary menu always appears the first time they go to save or exit a file. In actual fact, however, the only condition which WP evaluates in determining whether to take the user to the document summary screen is whether the file currently has a document summary. In other words, if a user working in an unsaved document had pressed [Format/Shift-F8], [3-Document], [5-Document Summary] and had then entered information into the "fields" in that screen, he or she would not be taken to the Document Summary screen on saving the document. By the same token, if a newly merged file contains an existing document summary, the user will not be taken to the Document summary screen on save or exit since a document summary already exists. This is a useability issue. Enhancement requests should be written when customers request that the merge feature not carry the primary file's document summary into the newly created, merged file. A simple workaround for this problem is to include a nested macro in the primary file which deletes the document summary from the merged file at the completion of the merge. Status: Sent to Development ***|sent to dev|*** Press Enter on link token. |
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