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- PROFESSIONAL INSTANT MENUS DEMO for Word Perfect 5.0
- by Bob Foley
-
- Word Perfect has become a very powerful word processor. The
- only trouble with the increase in power, has been the decrease in
- user friendliness. Well, all is not lost, Professional Instant
- Menus is here.
-
- I think you'll agree that the addition of pull down menus to
- Word Perfect increases its effectiveness dramatically. In fact,
- with the menu installed, Word Perfect has NO user interface...
- the menus do it all!
-
- Feel free to give this program to anyone you like ... it's free,
- all I ask is that this document accompany the program wherever it
- goes.
-
- The files accompanying this document, WPM.EXE and WP.MNU are
- a pull down menu system for Word Perfect 5.0 created with
- Professional Instant Menus. Many of the functions will not work
- properly with WordPerfect 4.2 (most DO work, though). If you have
- version 4.2, and would like to try pull down menus, look on your
- local bulletin board for WPMENU4.ARC (or something like that), or
- give me a call.
-
-
-
-
- HOW TO USE THE WORD PERFECT MENU DEMO
-
- To run the Word Perfect menu demo, put the WPM.EXE program
- and the WP.MNU menu file on your Word Perfect 5.0 directory and
- type:
-
- WPM <file name>
-
- The <file name> is optional. WPM will search for WP.EXE on
- the current path and, in turn, run it. Once in the editing mode,
- you'll notice that Word Perfect hasn't changed a bit! Now press
- Alt-Z, and you'll be treated to a pull down menu describing many
- of the options familiar to Word Perfect users. Press the UP,
- DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT keys until the option that you want is
- highlighted. Press ENTER and the function is performed or press
- ESC to abort the menu process. It's that simple. No more
- remembering Alt-F7 or any of those other ridiculous key
- combinations (throw that keyboard template across the room)! Use
- WPM just as if it were WP, including specifying a file name and
- options on the command line. WPM is NOT memory resident - once
- you exit WP the menu no longer takes up memory! It is important
- to note, however, that WPM WILL NOT WORK if you type this:
-
- \WP\WPM <file name>
-
- and '\WP' is not a directory in the current PATH. WP MUST be in
- the current directory OR on the current PATH, otherwise WPM will
- not be able to find it.
-
- The menu can also be activated by a MicroSoft compatible
- mouse. The right button activates and de-activates the menu, and
- the left button selects a function. The mouse can also be
- employed to move the mouse throughout the your text file!
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: Some computers (usually fast ones) don't react
- properly when you press Alt-Z because of the keyboard processing
- of Word Perfect 5.0. They give the message "ALTZ.WPM not found."
- If this is the case with you computer, add the following line to
- your AUTOEXEC.BAT:
-
- set wp=/nk
-
- and everything should be fine. If you want to test this theory
- first, type:
-
- wpm /nk
-
- when you run the menu program.
-
-
-
-
- HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MENU'S COLORS
-
- It has come to my attention that some video displays,
- particularly EGA, VGA and laptop LCDs don't show the menu in the
- intended color scheme. I am now including PIMCOLOR.EXE which
- allows you to change the colors of the menu. To run the program
- on WP.MNU type:
-
- PIMCOLOR WP.MNU
-
- You will see a color chart from which to pick numbers that
- correspond to the colors in which they are shown. Just type in
- color numbers that you think will look nice on your monitor, then
- answer 'Y' when asked to save the menu. Your WP menu is now
- installed with your colors.
-
-
-
-
- WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL INSTANT MENUS?
-
- WPM was created with a software package called Professional
- Instant Menus (PIM). What PIM did for Word Perfect, it can do for
- any program. There is NO PROGRAMMING and NO CRYPTIC FILES to
- create (Mouse Menus users, you know what I mean). Just type the
- text for each menu selection in the MENU MAKER program, press the
- actual keys which will perform that function, and that's it ...
- you've made a menu!
-
- Professional Instant Menus can help you create pull down
- menus for virtually any program. It is almost totally
- configurable, from the activation key to the 3 colors allowed for
- EACH menu. Its hierarchical structure allows the creation of sub-
- menus, and sub-sub-sub-menus (see the Retrieve option of WPM).
- Here is a list of some of its features:
-
- * Unlimited number of vertical and horizontal menus.
- * Unlimited number of menu selections.
- * Unlimited length of text for each menu selection.
- * Activate up to 20 keys with each menu selection.
- * 'Hot' (highlighted) keys everywhere.
- * Configure 3 colors for EACH menu.
- * Optional, variable length description line for EACH menu
- selection.
- * Place menus anywhere on the screen (think of it, pull UP
- menus?).
- * Optional auto-menu display. Allows Lotus-like menus.
- * Mouse compatible. Optional mouse cursor movement external
- to the menu (try moving the mouse around in your Word
- Perfect file!).
- * Configurable menu activation key.
- * Choose from 5 border styles (including none).
- * Test mode for testing menus...while you create them!
- * Chain to another menu file, under menu or program control.
- * ...and more.
-
- And it comes with ready to use menus for Word Perfect, WordStar,
- Procomm and Qmodem.
-
- A lot of people have asked me: "Why didn't you make the menus
- more like Lotus menus?". My response: "That's the whole point! I
- don't like Lotus menus (and I don't use Lotus). Professional
- Instant Menus lets you do what YOU want, not what I want." I may,
- however, give in to the Lotus-crazed masses and create a Lotus-
- like menu for WP ... someday.
-
-
-
-
- HOW TO ORDER PROFESSIONAL INSTANT MENUS
-
- Professional Instant menus is available for just $65.00
- (check or money order) from:
-
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- Souderton, PA 18964
- (215) 721-7283
-
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