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Three WP versions available:
For WordPerfect 9/10/11*/12/X3+ -
Download DYNA_WP9.ZIP
(v1.13;
10/19/06; 56,117 bytes)
For WordPerfect 8/9 -
Download DYNA_WP8.ZIP
(v1.10a;
8/25/00; 55,742 bytes)
For WordPerfect 7 -
Downoad DYNA_WP7.ZIP
(v1.09.07;
12/7/99; 23,892 bytes) Basically the same as version 1.09 for
WP8/9 (above) but uses a wait message and status prompt instead
of a progress indicator. Sorry, but this probably is the last
version for WP7.
Downloading,
Documentation, Modifications, and Support
* - If you
use WordPerfect 11, see information about using macros (from any source,
not just this website) in the first release of WordPerfect
11 (i.e., build 11.0.0.233, as shown in WordPerfect's Help
> About ...)
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Purpose
DynaHead is a macro that produces "dynamic
headers" or "floating headers" -- i.e., headers
that change page-to-page with the section, topic, or heading
on the same page.
DynaHead is useful for manuals, reports, directories,
company phone books, catalogs, parts lists, glossaries, etc.
-- wherever you need to identify pages with a header topic that
relates to a topic on the same page.
Advantages
The main advantage is that you do not have
to go to each page, decide on -- then select -- a heading or
other phrase, copy the selection to the clipboard, create a new
Header on that page, edit the Header, paste the copied text into
the Header, justify it, exit from the Header, then go to the
next page and repeat the process. DYNAHEAD does all this for
you.
Options
Several formatting options can be selected
from a menu to allow you to customize the "look" or
"style" of the headers, including placing them
- in Header A or Header B
- on alternating pages (left-justified on even
pages, right-justified on odd pages)
- in a "dictionary" style (Word A
- Word Z on each page)
- with outdented header margins
- formatted with various font attributes and/or
relative sizes
- with preceding text strings (e.g., "Chapter
5 - ")
How it works in general
The macro searches for section headings or
other body text that was previously marked ("tagged")
with Paragraph styles or Character
styles (see also the limitations below).
When it finds the chosen style on a page (you will have already
chosen the style's name from the macro's menu), it copies
the text to which the style was applied and pastes it into a
new header on the same page. It then proceeds page-by-page
to the end of the document, creating new "dynamic"
headers as it goes.
For example, you could set DYNAHEAD to find
all instances of a standard WordPerfect paragraph heading style
that exists in the document, such as the "Heading 2"
style. (The standard style named "Heading 2" must have
been applied to text somewhere in the current document. Many
users find these standard Heading styles convenient since they
also cause their text to automatically appear in any Table of
Contents you might generate.) Or, you could have DYNAHEAD find
a user-defined (a/k/a custom)
style such as "MyStyle3" that was used in the document.
The text to which these styles were applied will appear
in the Header on that page, formatted in the manner dictated
by the options you chose on the macro's menu.
How it works on each page
The first instance of text marked by the chosen
style that is found on a page is copied to the header on that
page. The last instance of marked text (which could be the same
as the first, or it could be different) is stored and used on
any subsequent page that doesn't have any marked text, so that
there is a "carry-over" effect on intervening pages.
In other words, all pages will always have dynamic headers. [If
dictionary-style headers are chosen, the last marked text is
used inside the same header, thus: "Word(s) A • Word(s)
Z". Dictionary-style headers also alternate their justification
on odd/even pages.]
Notes
and known limitations
- Paragraph styles -- such as the five WordPerfect default Heading
styles -- end with a hard return, and are often used for document
headings or other sectional divisions. Character styles, on the
other hand, can be applied to words, phrases, or larger blocks
of text, and do not require a hard return. Dynahead works best
when either type of style is only applied to short blocks
of text, such as a word or a phrase; otherwise, you could produce
headers that are too large or "crowded." (See also
the known limitation about styles that span more than one page,
below.)
- Document ("Open") styles are not supported. Unlike Paragraph
and Characters styles, which are produced by a pair of
codes, there is no ending code in a Document style. Because of
this characteristic the macro cannot find the end of the block
of Character-style-marked text; therefore it cannot copy that
text to the page headers. Only Paragraph and Character styles
are supported.
- If you later add or remove text or graphics
from your document, play DynaHead again to refresh the headers.
Dynamic headers of the type used here are not automatically updated
when you make changes to your document. (A message displays after
the macro completes its work to remind you to replay the macro
after revising a document.)
- If you plan on using a Table of Contents
(TOC) or an Index, you should create the TOC or Index after
playing DynaHead -- or at least regenerate the TOC/Index after
you have finished with DynaHead. DynaHead creates headers on
every page, and since headers (like footers) "encroach"
on the body text area, the creation of headers can push body
text downward into the document due to the decreased size of
the body text areas on each page. This can cause a pre-existing
TOC or Index's page numbering to be incorrect for some pages.
It is a good idea to regenerate a TOC and Index after playing
DynaHead.
- A style (i.e., the marked text to which a
style has been applied) that is split over two pages may sometimes
produce incorrect headers because the macro searches for the
beginning and ending of a given text style on a page-by-page
basis. Try to confine text that is marked with a style to a single
page. (You can "block protect" styles: See "BPSTYLES - Block protects paragraph
styles (e.g., "Heading 2") and following body text".
- Hidden text codes ([Hidden] and [Hidden Txt]) can be problematic
(in WP8 they caused some search code to go into a loop).
- Multi-page tables can slow down the macro
as it locates the top of each page. On occasion these tables
may cause the macro to produce improper header text on the last
page, or even cause the macro to fail.
- One solution that has ben reported to work
is to temporarily remove the table (i.e., copy it to an empty
document), play the DynaHead macro, then insert the table back
in the appropriate location. Use Reveal Codes to ensure that
you also copy the table's [Tbl Def] and [Tbl Off] codes, which include the table's formatting.
- Pre-existing [Suppress] codes on Page 1
can be problematic. For example, if the macro has been previously
played on the same doument with the "Suppress header type
(A or B) on page 1" option selected, and is subsequently
played with this option deselected, a header still will not appear
on Page 1. In this event, manually delete the appropriate [Suppress]
code in the Reveal Codes window. For more on the suppress feature,
see here.
- Note that the macro language cannot tell
what type of suppress code it finds in a search, so coding around
this problem is not possible since a user may have used several
such codes with differing purposes.
Tip
If you want to add your own custom style names
to the menu's drop list, here's a procedure (tested in WP12)
that should do the job, but it requires editing the macro and
using the macro's Dialog Editor -- something that probably will
appeal only to intermediate or advanced users.
Example: Suppose
you have a custom paragraph style named "Stepped 2." Open the macro
for editing and carefully follow these steps.
Step 1.
Click the Dialog Editor button on the macro
toolbar. The PerfectScript dialog window appears.
Step 1a.
Double-click "menu1" to open the standard
(non-metric) DynaHead menu for editing. ("menu2" is
for metric users.)
Two new dialogs open on screen: the PerfectScript Dialog Editor toolbar, and
the DynaHead menu (in dialog editing mode).
Double-click anywhere on the DynaHead menu's
style name drop list to being up the Combo Box Properties
dialog.
Step 1b.
Click the Create/Edit list button in the Combo
Box Properties dialog; in the "List item:" field, enter
(without quotes) "Stepped 2" and click OK. (Note that
names are case-sensitive.) The new style name will be added to
the list.
Repeat Step 1b for any other custom
paragraph style names you want to add. (When you are using Create/Edit
List, you can select an item and use the Move Up and Move Down
buttons, as well as Set Initial to set the initial menu selection
the user will see.)
When you are finished adding to the "List
items:" field, click OK from the Combo Box Properties dialog
to dismiss the dialog.
Step 1c.
On the other "floating toolbar"
dialog (i.e., the PerfectScript Dialog Editor dialog),
click the Save button (or use File, Save from the Editor's menu).
Then use File, Close from the Editor's menu.
You should now be back in the main macro document
window, editing it.
Step 2.
Now you need to modify some of the macro's
commands.
At about line 137 in the macro code, you'll
see this line of code (it will be all on one line):
Default: vStyleNameorEnum
:= vEntryStyle Break // Store user-defined style
Just above it, carefully enter this
line of code (type all on one line):
CaseOF "Stepped 2":
vStyleNameorEnum := "Stepped 2" Break
(Note that style names are case-sensitive.)
Repeat Step 2 for any other style names
you added in Step 1b.
Step 3.
When finished, click the Save & Compile
button on the macro toolbar. This will save the changes you made
in Steps 1 and 2.
Play the macro on a document that has the
Stepped 2 style in it.
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