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In article <VeywwB11w165w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
wrote:
> 
> 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.

In my US manual it says to name them ClarisWorks XX Options. 
Maybye it's just the international docs.

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