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Well, I've found a couple more bugs in ClarisWorks.  These may only apply to
the International version.

Firstly, the manual says that you can save stationery documents in
System Folder:Claris so that you don't have to set up page sizes and stuff
every time you start a new document.  It claims that the documents should be
called "ClarisWorks WP Prefs", "ClarisWorks SS Prefs" and so on.

I tried this, and it didn't work.  Eventually I got fed up with ClarisWorks
defaulting to Imperial measurements (my System is set up to be metric-only),
and I went browsing with ResEdit.  I discovered that the files should in fact
be called "ClarisWorks WP Options", not "... Prefs".  (The last STR# resource
in ClarisWorks seems to be a list of the files it looks for in the Claris
folder.)  I renamed the files, and it seemed to work better.

Except... the WP options still weren't being saved.  I investigated this, and
it turned out that changing rulers and fonts on an empty document and saving
that as stationery wasn't enough to make ClarisWorks remember the changes.  It
wasn't bothering to write the font information -- after all, the file's
empty, so what does it matter, right?

The solution I found is to start a new empty document, set it up the way you
like it, then type a single word in before saving it as stationery.  (I
recommend the word "zygodactylous", but others may work.)  Then close the
document, load it again, delete the word, and save it as stationery again.

Hopefully now I'll never see another inch ruler.


mathew
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