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The Table of Contents for the Adobe PDF file, "Automating WordPerfect Templates with Prompts, Bookmarks, and Macros"

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C O N T E N T S

• What is a template?
• Creating custom templates
• Formatting custom templates
• Automating custom templates
  • Using prompts and the Template Information dialog
    • Standard prompts
    • Address book prompts
    • Personal information prompts
    • Unprompted information
    • Creating or editing prompts
    • Using Prompt Builder
  • Using standard bookmarks and template macros
    • Template macros that insert unprompted material
    • Creating template macros
    • More complex template macros
    • Other template macro ideas
      • Load a letterhead logo from a file on disk
      • The template macro in "My Letterhead"
      • Display "pick lists" for user input choices
      • "If...Then" template macros
• Loading template documents
  • Use a toolbar button that points to the template
  • Use a macro to load a new template document
    • Create the macro first —
    • — then play it with a mouse click
      • Method A: Create a toolbar button to play the macro
      • Method B: Create a drop down menu to play macros
• Appendix A - The template macro in "My letterhead"