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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Bitmaps by reference in help files
Message-ID: <5992@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 23:40:39 GMT
References: <9817@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <27417@cs.yale.edu>
Reply-To: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology
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In article <27417@cs.yale.edu> spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>don't use the characters '{' and '}'; use the Word for Windows field
>characters (which appear on the screen as { and }) which you get by
>hitting Ctrl-F9.

Gee, what great documentation.  We were somehow supposed to guess what they
meant, it seems.  Anyway, I guess I need to ask a more specific question now:
has anyone managed to include bitmaps by reference with Microsoft Word 5.0?
I tried using the field characters (the chevrons produced with Ctrl-[ and
Ctrl-]) but that didn't do it either.  (It left no chevrons, no text, no
bitmap, not even white space in the help file.)

Also, is there specific formatting for the characters inside the field
characters?  Since the manual doesn't give a screen display, I can't tell
if the bold "bmc" and the italic "filename" are their typographical
conventions or actual formatting instructions.

-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
"There's a certain freedom to being completely screwed." - The Freshman
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