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In article <xQ2dj.99856$GV4.71323@trnddc05>, "Claude Balls"
<claudeballsjr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Harry.  I'll give it a try.   Simple question - what do the
> plug-ins do?

As in many other applications, PageMaker's plug-ins add functions to
make things easier or automate complicated tasks. PageMaker comes with
some and you can download more ... but many of them are fairly useless
to most users.

PageMaker's plug-ins are found in the Utilities -> Plug-ins menu.

Some of the perhaps more useful ones to an average user are:

    Drop Cap        Creates a drop cap - a larger letter that
                    spans multiple lines of text

    Change Case     Changes the case (upper case, lower case, 
                    etc.) of the selected text.

    Word Counter    Counts the words in the selected text.

    Keyline         Adds a border around the selected object 
                    with user defineable style / thickness, 
                    colour and distance from the object.

    Build Booklet   Takes a document with a series of A5 pages
                    (for example) and creates a new document 
                    with A4 sized spreads - when printed 
                    double-sided, sorted and folded / stapled 
                    you end up with a booklet with the pages 
                    in the same reading order as they were in
                    the A5 sized document.

Personally I've only ever bothered with the last two of those.

As well as Plug-ins there are Scripts, but these tend to be even more
"useless" (or perhaps the word is "specialised for a particular use").
These are seen and run via a palatte window you can display from Window
-> Plug-in Palattes -> Show Scripts. Other than a cursory "play", I've
never wasted time with any of these.





Helpful Harry                   
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