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You may also wish to review the following "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions." Q. Is it possible to alter the user interface of Quadratron Modules? A. Yes. You will usually find this under the 'Options' item, on the command key menu (under the Word Processor it is command 'User Options' - then 'User Settings'). This will offer you the choices available for each module, and allow you to modify various characteristics of the interface. The kinds of interface options include, for example:
Q. I am a Systems Administrator, is it possible for me to set individual and company wide settings for user options? A. Yes, you can. User choices are stored as settings of Environment Variables in Resource Configuration file (identified by the filename termination .rc), and are read when the product is activated. Thus the last user setting is saved for the next invocation. Administrators may over-ride user choices by setting the Variables to the required values in the users environment. See the Technical Manual, available for FTP download, for more information. Q. My company has a wide range of standard documents, which follow our 'Style Guide'. How can I set up CliqWord to save staff time - at present they make all the format changes, and headers for each new document. A. When creating files for use in the WP module the user may specify the name of a pre-existing file, or a standard (default) file. The new file will then have the following characteristics in common with the specified prototype:
Q. I frequently use the "Convert File" facilities, and getting to this is a lot of keystrokes from the Desk! Can you help? A. The keystroke sequences used to reach remote utilities may be stored in a macro, and re-run with a control keystroke, thus allowing the user quick access to chosen product features. To record a macro, use macro 'r', followed by the key sequence to get to the required function; cancel to stop recording; at the prompt choose a key to use to run the macro. Press control 'key' (that is, hold down your keyboard Control or Ctrl key, plus your chosen 'key' at the same time) and the macro will run. See the on line HELP for more details. The macros may be developed on a per user basis, or a System Administrator may supply users with a common macro set. User's macros are stored in files with '.mac' terminations in their defaults directory. Warning: Macros override the default use of Control Key sequences, which are to provide alternate keystrokes for the Quadratron function keys on terminals where there are too few, or no, function keys available. Q. Many of the letters leaving this office have the same starting and concluding paragraph. Can I store these somewhere, and recall them as needed, to save time? A. Yes - use Glossaries. Text items and WP command key sequences may be stored in glossaries, and replayed with a simple key sequence. 62 'recordings' (with embedded 'stop' codes) may be stored per glossary, and glossaries may be nested up to 12 levels deep. One glossary may be in use at any one time, but there are no limits to the number of glossaries allowed. Users may create and edit their own glossaries, and Administrators may supply common glossaries of commonly used office text and command sequences to users. See the on line HELP for details on how to set these up. Q. How can I identify the glossary files? A. Glossaries are held in pairs of files which take '.gl' and '.gs' terminations - the former containing the binary command sequences (which you cannot edit) and the latter the editable version of the glossary file. Q. Does the Quadratron Word Processor have a Mail Merge Function? A. Yes, but Quadratron refers to the tool which performs 'Mail Merge' as Records Processing; this is because the facility is programmable, and can do much more than simple mail merge operations. The user may generate, from simple menus, control files to sort, select and merge data in a variety of formats into WP documents containing special Merge Fields. Q. Which Quadratron applications can be used by Records Processing as data sources? A. Data files from the Date Book (Diary), Notepad and Phonebook may be used as the input for Records Processing. Also the data files generated by CliqForm or CliqIT applications may be used in the same way. See the Online Help for more details. Q. Am I restricted to Quadratron applications as data sources? A. No. The control file 'language' is sophisticated enough to allow technical administrators to extract data not only from Quadratron Databases but user generated list files and relational databases (eg with SQL statements), too; and directly to incorporate the data stream into CliqWord WP files. Thus complex data / WP merge operations may be made available to the user, simply by running a control file. This process may be further simplified by running the control file from a simple to generate menu interface (See CliqIT). Q. How do I identify Control Files, and can I edit them with other text processors? A. Control files are given a '.qcr' termination on creation. As they are plain text files you may use any editor you wish to modify them. Q. Does CliqWord have a Clipboard facility? A. Yes. Marked items may be moved between product modules via the Clipboard feature. Refer to the integrate command, for 'copy', 'move' (cut), and 'paste' commands. The format of the 'pasted' data may be controlled by the user, by specifying a custom format. Q. Can I use CliqWord to create HTML files? A. Not directly. However, CliqWord files may be printed to a "ps" type file and then converted to a "pdf" file. PDF files may then be pasted to a standard Word for Windows file. Contact Quadratron for further details. Q. I was using Lotus 1-2-3 for Unix Ver 1.1. Can I use CliqCalc to access these files? A. Yes, with a work-around. CliqCalc cannot open wk3 files directly. They must be first saved as a wk1 file type either by using Lotus or by another program such as Excel for Windows which is capable of opening a wk3 file and saving it as a wk1 file type.
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