Macros from WordPerfect X4 to Word2010

[chris13]

I've recently taken over as 'IT Guy' at a local law firm. I have not used WordPerfect in 15+ years, and was not even aware it was still in use. It is incredible unstable when running on Windows 7, always crashing and dropping settings.



I would love to be able to move the office over to Office 2010 as it is installed along side WP on each computer, however, there are some customized features that have been implemented in WP. The attached image is a custom tool bar, and essentially all I need to do is figure out how to put this into MSO in order to successfully implement it.

The brightly coloured squares are printing macros. Example: clicking purple square prints two copies of the document, one on our letterhead, one on blank paper (basically just one click, two different trays).

I have bare minimum knowledge of WP, but fairly extensive knowledge of Office. No programming skills. Can anyone help?
http://i.imgur.com/yB0iuBt.jpg

[Charles Kenyon]

Word and WP are very different. Analyze what each macro does and ask a specific question about how to accomplish that in Word. You may want to look at the following page and the links from it.

Word for Word Perfect Users

Many things that are done using macros in WP are done using different tools in Word.

You can prepare a custom ribbon tab for your firm. Here is one that is used in mine.


Here is a more comprehensive one for use in a criminal practice.

Customize the Ribbon (It doesn't take rocket science)

[chris13]

Thanks for your reply.

I have already figured out how to create a custom ribbon with my own shortcuts added on. Most of these macros in WP are for printing (the important ones, anyway).

For example: the 'purple square' on the link I posted prints two copies of the document. One on our letterhead, one on just plain paper. I have figured out how to make a macro to print two copies, but can't figure out how to make it change trays on the printer.

[Charles Kenyon]

Are you putting your custom ribbon into a separate template using the techniques discussed in the article or simply modifying a ribbon using the Word interface? The former gives you something your can distribute throughout an office, the latter will be incredible headaches if it is to be used on more than one computer.

Word words through the printer drivers to control printers so these commands may end up being OS and printer driver specific.

[Charles Kenyon]

Have you tried recording macros to do what you want done?
With what result?

[chris13]

Presently I'm just attempting to get it to work on my PC, once this happens then I plan on distributing it.

Tried recording the macro, but it does not record anything that goes on outside of the Word interface, meaning it did not pickup the fact that I changed from Tray 1 to Tray 2 in the printer properties. I need to figure out a way to force it to change paper trays when going from copy 1 to copy 2.

So, the result is click the macro, get two copies printed but from only one tray.

[Charles Kenyon]

On printing, create two separate printer drivers on the computer, one for Tray 1, the second for Tray 2. See how that works. Word sees that as using two different printers.

On the ribbon modifications. I can't stress enough that the modifications you are making to your computer through the Word interface cannot practically be duplicated or shared except through going through the same work on each computer. If you store them in a template using an XML editor, you can share your modifications without overwriting any that may already exist.

[chris13]

Ah, brilliant. Will give that a shot later on or tomorrow.

Thanks for the advice on the XML editor, will also go this route.

Thanks!! :-)