4.0594 Searching WordPerfect Footnotes (4/70)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 16 Oct 90 20:09:45 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0594. Tuesday, 16 Oct 1990.


(1) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 07:55:37 EST (15 lines)
From: A_Brook@CARLETON.CA
Subject: re:Searching Fn's in WP

(2) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 09:25:34 EDT (18 lines)
From: Jose Igartua <R12270@UQAM>
Subject: Re: 4.0590 WP...

(3) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 08:33:54 MDT (19 lines)
From: Skip Knox <DUSKNOX@IDBSU>
Subject: Re: 4.0590 WP...

(4) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 14:28:47 EDT (18 lines)
From: grgo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Greg Goode)
Subject: Searching WP footnotes

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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 07:55:37 EST
From: A_Brook@CARLETON.CA
Subject: re:Searching Fn's in WP

This is in response to Bodh's question. I do believe if you hit Home
be-fore search, WP also searches the Fn's/Endnotes. I may have the key
wrong (my manual is not where I am) but I know I have the principle
right. I too was immensely irritated at not being able to search notes.
Unfortunately, when I found that the way to do so was right there in the
manual all along, I then had to feel immensely stupid. Of course, I
found it purely by accident, not because I was looking for it. There
ought to be a law against having to read manuals in order to understand
software.

A Brook, Philosophy
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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 09:25:34 EDT
From: Jose Igartua <R12270@UQAM>
Subject: Re: 4.0590 Misc: History is...; WP; Warts & Bibliography

About WordPerfect footnotes: A global search (or search and replace)
is done by hitting the 'Home' key before the search or search and
replace commands (F2, Shift-F2 (for backwards search), or Alt-F2 (for
search and replace).

As for transforming footnotes into endnotes, the 4.2 edition of the WP
manual has instructions on how to do this in the "Special Functions"
part ot the manual. Basically, you write a macro to "revise" footnotes
by going into one, marking its contents as a block, deleting the block,
coming out of the footnote, erasing the footnotes, generating an endnote,
and bringing in the contents of the block into it. This works with later
versions as well. Of course, this leaves the actual contents of the
endnote within the WP file, but will print out the endnotes at the end
of the text.
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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 08:33:54 MDT
From: Skip Knox <DUSKNOX@IDBSU>
Subject: Re: 4.0590 Misc: History is...; WP; Warts & Bibliography

Bob Hollander asks about how to search in a footnote; that's an easy one.

Before you initiate the search (or the Replace), hit the [Home] key.
WordPerfect calls this Extended Search and can be found in the Reference
Manual under that heading. The same logic applies to some other
functions as well (e.g., the spell checker, I think).

So, an extended search would be [Home] [F2] instead of [F2] by itself.


Ellis 'Skip' Knox, Ph.D.
Historian, Data Center Associate
Boise State University DUSKNOX@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU
Boise, Idaho 83725
(208) 385-1315
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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 14:28:47 EDT
From: grgo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Greg Goode)
Subject: Searching WP footnotes

Robert Hollander writes,

> If Catherine Griffin can singlehandedly end one of my two biggest
> gripes about Word Perfect I would be overjoyed: any way I can begin
> to do global searches, etc., on footnotes would be a HUGE help.

Just press [Home],F2 for Extended Search. It will go through
almost everywhere that's not on your regular document screen:
footnotes, endnotes, headers, graphics box captions and text
boxes.

To search and replace, including footnotes, press [Home],Alt+F2.

-Greg Goode