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Using older WordPerfect Template Projects in
newer versions of WordPerfect
Do you have the original release of WordPerfect 11 (i.e., version
11.0.0.233 as shown in Help>About WordPerfect)? See here
for specific issues. |
Sometimes Corel stops including certain Projects
(i.e., automated templates) in later versions of WordPerfect
that were included in earlier ones.
Sometimes the same-named Project doesn't work
like it should (e.g., the Memo Project in WP 13.0.0.406 doesn't
work properly).
Solution: You
might be able to use an earlier Project in a later version of
WordPerfect.
NOTE: Some may still be available for downloading.
For example, you can download the English versions of WordPerfect
10 Template Projects from Corel's
FTP site. Please follow the instruction below to make them
available in a later version of WordPerfect.
IMPORTANT:
This method has worked for
a number of users and in a number of versions of WordPerfect.
There is no guarantee it will always work under all circumstances
-- particularly if a Project uses the address book or some other
feature that has changed in some way. Therefore, the method includes
a simple means of backing up two important files.
First, you should know that WordPerfect Projects
-- accessed via File, New from Project (or File, New in WP8)
-- are really just automated templates. However, unlike
the automation you can add to a custom template in the form of
prompts or a template macro (see "Automating
WordPerfect Templates" on the main Tips page), the automation
part of a Corel Project is encoded in a special, separate
disk file that has the same filename as the template but a different
filename extension.
For example, the Memo Project is really composed
of two files, Memo.ast (the automation part) and Memo.wpt (the
template part).
The "ast" appears to stand for "assistant,"
and this file seems to be responsible for popping up the PerfectExpert
pane on the left side of the document screen, as well as including
-- in some Projects -- certain codes ([Named Region]) that
perform automated tasks related to the PerfectExpert options
in the left pane.
To function properly, the .ast file requires
a certain pair of .dll files, uawpNNen.ast and uawpNNen.dll,
where "NN" is the WordPerfect version number (e.g.,
11, 13, etc.). This is important in understanding the procedure
below.
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[The following is modeled after a general
procedure that was first published by Charles Rossiter, Corel
C_Tech, on a Corel newsgroup.]
Let's assume you want to use the Memo Project from WordPerfect 11 in WordPerfect X3
(i.e., version 13, hereafter referred to as WPOX3). The method assumes that both WordPerfect 11 and WPOX3
are currently installed -- or at least, that you have access
to the two WP11 Memo.* files.
Background
When you create a Memo Project in WordPerfect
11, the pane on the left side of the screen that appears when
the Memo loads is the PerfectExpert, and is displayed by the
Memo.ast file when you load Memo.wpt. It requires a certain version-specific
pair of files, uawp11en.dll and uawp11en.ast. If you want to
use WP11's Memo Project in WPOX3, you'll need to "trick"
WPOX3 into using renamed versions of these two files --
renamed to what they were named in WP11.
In other words, for all Projects, WordPerfect
requires these two files to be the same internally as
when they were originally coded by Corel for the currently loaded
version -- WPOX3, in this case.
However -- and here's the trick -- the names
of these two program files can be different from the installed
versions because the two (older) WP11 Memo files (in this example)
will "call" on them by name if you load the WP11 version
of Memo.wpt in WP X3. (Obviously, if you use several WP11
Projects in WP X3, each of them will also call on these two renamed
files.) WPOX3, on the other hand, "sees" them as WPOX3
program files, not as WP11 program files, so everything usually
works as expected.
Procedure
Here's the step-by-step procedure to set up
and use the WordPerfect 11 Memo Project so that it works in WPOX3.
A similar method can be used for other Projects from earlier
versions but, again, there is no guarantee they will work. Still,
since the relevant files are backed up, this should not be a
problem since you can restore things to their original state.
1. Close WPOX3 if it is open. Use Windows
Explorer (Start>Programs>Accessories>Windows Explorer)
to locate and select the WPOX3 "..\Template" folder.
(On many systems it is D:\Corel\WordPerfect Office X3\Languages\EN\Template.)
2. Locate and rename these two Project
files -
Memo.ast to Memo.ast-BAK
and
Memo.wpt to Memo.wpt-BAK.
(This will back them up, just in case.)
3. Go to the WP11 template folder (e.g.,
D:\Corel\WordPerfect Office 11\Template) and copy the
WP11 versions of these two Project files into the WPOX3 ..\Templates
folder.
You should now have four Memo Project files
in the WPOX3 ..\Template folder:
Memo.ast
Memo.ast-BAK
Memo.wpt
Memo.wpt-BAK
The -BAK files are the WPOX3 files. (They
don't seem to work in the first release of WPOX3, which is why
this particular Project is being used here as an example.)
4. Locate uawp13en.dll and uawp13en.ast in
the WPOX3 ..\Template folder; copy them to a temporary
folder (e.g., C:\Temp if it exists) and rename them
to -
uawp11en.dll
uawp11en.ast
5. Move the renamed copies back into
the WPOX3 ..\Template folder, alongside their WPOX3 counterparts,
so that the WPOX3 ..\Template folder now has these files in it:
uawp11en.ast (the new, renamed WPOX3 file)
uawp11en.dll (the new, renamed WPOX3 file)
uawp13en.ast (the original, untouched WPOX3 file)
uawp13en.dll (the original, untouched WPOX3 file)
6. Open WPOX3 and use File, New from Project
to select and Create the automated Memo document. It should load,
and the PerfectExpert pane should work to modify the Memo.
If you follow the above procedure, you should
not have to "refresh" the Project.usr file, since the
two Memo files copied from WP11 have the same names as the WPOX3
originals. However, if they do not show up, search for Projects.Usr
and delete it. It will be re-created when you next load WordPerfect.
An alternative
to the above Memo Project is to use
a Memo macro. See here. |
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