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Modifying the legal Pleading feature |
For WordPerfect 10 and earlier
When you have the Legal toolbar visible (View,
Toolbars, Legal) the first icon creates the vertical lines and
line numbers along the edge of the Pleading page. Clicking the
icon simply plays the shipping macro, pleading.wcm, which
displays a menu of choices and then creates the lines and numbers.
For WordPerfect 11 and later
When you have the Legal toolbar visible (View,
Toolbars, Legal) the second icon brings up the Pleading Expert,
which is a built-in, self-contained program module that helps
design a legal pleading.
For all versions
What you may not know is that the lines and
numbers are first created in a watermark (Watermark B) which
then is inserted into the document's initial style code by the
pleading.wcm macro or Perfect Expert.
That's why it is hard to find -- deliberately,
so, since most users have little need to modify it, and most
would not want the [Watermark B] code deleted accidentally. So
it is hidden inside the [Open Style: DocumentStyle] code in Reveal Codes. If you create a pleading document
and double-click this code, you will see a [Watermark B] code in the Styles
Editor's Contents field.
Generally, you probably will not want to modify
the pleading macro's Watermark B, but if you really want to do
it, you can
either:
- 1. Create a new Pleading document (as above).
Open Reveal Codes (View, Reveal Codes). Double-click on the [Open
Style: DocumentStyle] code (that is, the document's initial style
code) at the very top of the Pleading document. (Make sure you
are at the top of the main document window and not inside a header.)
- 2. In the Styles Editor that pops up, double-click
on the [Watermark B] code in the Contents pane, and make your
changes there. ...But... this method can be difficult
since it is often hard to see all the commands and hard to see
the effects of your changes.
or ... 
use this alternative, which is easier even with the extra steps:
- 1. Create a new Pleading document
(as above). We will call this "Document A." Open Reveal
Codes (View, Reveal Codes). Double-click on the [Open Style:
DocumentStyle] code (that is, the document's initial style code)
at the very top of the Pleading document. (Make sure you are
at the top of the main document window and not inside a header.)
- 2. In the Styles Editor that pops up, place
the cursor in the Contents pane, to the immediate left of the
[Watermark B] code. Hold down the Shift key and press the right
arrow key once. This selects just the watermark code containing
the Pleading formatting. (If there are lots of other codes and/or
text in the Contents pane, make a note of where the [Watermark
B] code is located. You will want to return there in Step 9.)
- 3. Press Ctrl+X to cut the code from
the Styles Editor to the Windows clipboard.
- 4. Exit from the Styles Editor (with OK),
open a new blank document ("Document B"), and
paste the [Watermark B] code into the body text area of that
document with Ctrl+V. When this code is in the body text area
(rather than inside a Styles Editor) of the new document you
will be able to edit it easily.
- 5. With Reveal Codes still open, edit the
watermark by double-clicking on its [Watermark B] code in Reveal
Codes (or use the Insert, Watermark choice on the top menu bar).
You should now see "[(Watermark B)]" at the top
of the WordPerfect program's window to let you know you are editing
the watermark.
- 6. Make your desired changes to the watermark.
- You could, for example, add a text box outside
the watermark's left or right margin with your firm's logo and/or
name. By right-clicking on the text box, you can choose Content
to rotate it 90 (or 270) degrees, then right-click the box again
to choose Position ("Attach box to Page"). The latter
will let you drag the box outside the margin. Border/Fill lets
you remove or change the box's border, and so forth.
- 7. Exit from the Pleading watermark (Watermark
B) with File, Close (or with the Close button on the watermark's
property bar).
- 8. Back in the body text area of the main
document (i.e., Document B), and still with Reveal Codes open,
select just the newly revised [Watermark B] code in Reveal
Codes and then use Ctrl+C to copy (or Ctrl+X to cut)
that code to the Windows clipboard.
- 9. Go back to Document A, the one where you
originally cut the watermark code from its [Open Style] code.
Now, edit the [Open Style] code again by double-clicking it and
paste the now-revised [Watermark B] code into its original
location in the Contents field with Ctrl+V.
- 10. Close the Styles Editor. The revised
watermark should show in the document. If it is satisfactory,
you could repeat these steps in a custom
template so the new Pleading will be readily available whenever
you need it.
Tips
- The above method -- and including some of
the other tips below -- could be used in a custom template
so that new customized pleadings can be loaded when needed. To
create custom templates see "Custom
templates". To create automated custom templates
see here.
- Note that you can also insert other
items into the document's initial [Open Style] code, such as
text or format codes, or even copy codes into the [Open Style]
code from the main document area.
- You might be interested in other items on
this site, such as -
- LineBorders - Create a fixed, user-specified line border around
pages outside page margins (or any specified printable
location)
- PrntCopy - A macro that can print a copy of your document
marked with a stamp outside the margin. [After creating a pleading,
play this macro and check the two menu boxes, "Stamp original
document" and "For the stamp use Watermark A"
(the pleading macro uses Watermark B). Be aware that local jurisdictions
may dictate what is required and what is permitted in pleading
documents.]
- See the Library
for more macros, and the main Tips
page for more tips.
- You can suppress the Pleading marks
on a page in the main document. Just place your cursor at the
top of the page where you want it suppressed and click Format,
Page, Suppress, Watermark B. For more, see here.
- You can delay the appearance of the
Pleading -- that it, make it skip "x" pages from the
start of the document. Let's assume you want to delay the appearance
of the Pleading marks until page 3 (if there is a page 3). NOTE:
Be sure to carefully follow these instructions, since the procedure
-- though simple -- is a bit tricky.
Step 1. Create
a Pleading in the current document, which, as we now know, creates
a Pleading watermark [Watermark B] code inside the document's
initial [Open Style] code.
Step 2. Double-click
the [Open Style: DocumentStyle] code (the document's initial
style code) at the top of the current Pleading document. In the
Styles Editor that pops up, place the cursor to the left of the
[Watermark B] code, hold down the Shift key, and press the right
arrow key once. This selects just the watermark code. Then press
Ctrl+X to cut the code from the Styles Editor to the Windows
clipboard.
NOTE: You can take the opportunity at this point to modify
the Pleading watermark before using it in a Delay code.
- Exit from the Styles Editor;
- paste the watermark code into a new blank
document;
- edit the [Watermark B] code (just double-click
it in Reveal Codes);
- make changes to the Pleading watermark;
- exit from the watermark window;
- then select just the revised [Watermark B]
code and paste it into the Styles Editor in step #3 below.
Step 3. Still
in the Styles Editor dialog, use its own menu to create a
Delay code: Click Format, Page, Delay Codes., and set the number
of pages to 2, then click OK. This will force WordPerfect to
skip the first two pages before displaying the Pleading marks.
If the document has fewer pages, the Pleading marks will not
display.
Note: The Styles Editor dialog immediately changes to the
Define Delayed Codes dialog. Also notice that a floating toolbar
appears at the bottom of your screen with 5 buttons on it. You
will use it to exit the Define Delayed Codes dialog.
Step 4. Paste
the [Watermark B] code in the Styles Editor's Contents
field with Ctrl+V.
Step 5. Close
the Define Delayed Codes dialog with the Close button
on the floating toolbar on the bottom of your screen. You
cannot close this dialog with the dialog's OK button. If you
try you probably will "hang" the program.
Step 6. Now,
press the OK button on the dialog to return to your document.
The Pleading numbering will show up on page 3, if there is a
page 3. It will not show up on pages 1 and 2.
Note: You can use more than one Delay code in the document's
initial style. For example, you can cut a [Delay] code
that resets page margins from
the main document and paste it into the [Open Style: DocumentStyle]
code's Styles Editor, alongside the other [Delay] code(s). Or
you could delay the appearance of a header or footer.
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